“The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and… — Peter Heather Copy Share Image
“One shining light, in the den of iniquity, was that the mark eradicated religion, our hackneyed beliefs in fictitious ideals, creating yet… — Owen H Lewis Copy Share Image
“The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. The Professor's indignation found in itself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“The science called ‘economics’ is based on an initial act of abstraction that consists in dissociating a particular category of practices, or… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“We’ve built a society that values civil liberties even at the expense of social order.” — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order, — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“The Conservative Mind describes a cast of intellect or a type of character, an inclination to cherish the permanent things in human… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The typical premodern ruler gave money to priests, philosophers and poets in the hope that they would legitimise his rule and maintain… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishingconnections and negotiating relationships. Emphasis is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To be clear, civilization is not the same as society. Civilization is a specific, hierarchical organization based on 'power over.' Dismantling civilization,… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with… — James Truslow Adams Copy Share Image
“The Goddess-centered art we have been examining, with its striking absence of images of male domination or warfare, seems to have reflected… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
