In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“in marked contrast to other high civilizations of the time, this religion—centering on the worship of the Goddess—seems to have both reflected… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
“Looking at the sweep of Christian history, we are often reminded of this message of the transience of human affairs, and, based… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Those who withdraw Christianity from the social order to “focus on evangelism” narrow down our engagement in a similar way. I hope… — Greg Forster Copy Share Image
By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a… — Eugenio Maria de Hostos Copy Share Image
Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“Beauty" and sexuality are both commonly misunderstood as some transcendent inevitable fact; falsely interlocking the two makes it seem doubly true that… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“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
“Ask why you can’t lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
“Comparing African and Egyptian circumstances also points to other reasons why churches survived in some regions and failed in others. From earliest… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The main focus of Burroughs' Wild Boys tetralogy is an apocalyptic world in which the social order is disrupted enough to allow… — Jamie Russell 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
“To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent others from perhaps being infected by… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In principle the human productive community may be constituted in either of two ways. First, it may be consciously regulated. Whether its… — Rudolph Hiferding Copy Share Image
“If Marner, through the allegedly compassionate intervention of Eliot and Eppie combined, becomes, in his meek and modest way, a pillar of… — Lee Edelman Copy Share Image
“It is undoubtedly true that religion is often socially conservative. By binding a people together under a shared God, a common cosmology… — Steve Bruce Copy Share Image
“Pure creativity is magnificent expressly because it is the opposite of everything else in life that's essential or inescapable (food, shelter, medicine,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a… — Richard Rohr 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 Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism]… — Myron Coureval Fagan Copy Share Image
The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact… — Roni Horn Copy Share Image
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished… — Florence King 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
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and… — Lester R. Brown 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
I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image