...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Guan Zhong explains (as the fourth-century-BC Guanzi attests) that management of water is the key to maintaining social order. There are ‘five… — Philip Ball Copy Share Image
Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“From the daily battles against the employers and their allies, the workers gradually learn the deeper meaning of this struggle. At first… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
“We need to build a new cooperative social order out beyond the principles of hierarchy, rule out competitiveness. Starting in the grass… — Carol P. Christ Carol Plaskow Copy Share Image
The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities -… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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It is hard to tell if capital punishment has such an effect. And even if, in some contexts it has (such as… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Democracy is not compatible with capitalism but is congruent with a version of democratic socialism in which the wealth, resources, and benefits… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Insofar as human beings flower on the ground of freedom, justice guards that ground. Insofar as human beings flower in the soil… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“Poe had invented a genre—the detective story—that played upon but in the end relieved his readers’ urban anxieties. Social order was possible… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“The Islamic faith and ideology is at another pivotal moment in its history. Having survived for a thousand years or more after… — Cal Sarwar on facebook Copy Share Image
If all fossil fuel were to go POOF! tomorrow, the result would be a cataclysmic social upheaval, with food riots, warlords, shutdowns,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image