As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“In Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig attributed the decline of civil order in Europe to the myth of progress.7 In all… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The ideal hero of the age emerges as a titanic individual who, after rejecting and overthrowing a corrupt social order, struggles on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting… — Sasha Cagen Copy Share Image
“But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism? Poor human nature, what horrible… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
