The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives,… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
“While the emergence from embeddedness in the interpersonal frees one from the subjectivity of constructing one's morality on the bases of arbitrary… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“We should not be surprised therefore if British conservative thinkers – notably Hume, Smith, Burke and Oakeshott – have tended to see… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“As the number of inhabitants grew, so did the amount of information required to coordinate their affairs. Between the years 3500 BC… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“The phrase "consumer society" complements the description of the present social order as an "industrial society." Needs are tailored by the mass… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Designed or planned social order is necessarily schematic; it always ignores essential features of any real, functioning social order. This truth is… — James C. Scott 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
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo 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
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of… — John Green Copy Share Image
“concerns itself with the linguistic, ethical, legal, and ritual conventions which provide the society with its system of communication. Confucianism, in other… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society,… — Slavoj Žižek 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
The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“And with our work,” John continued, “we are carving out a new social order and the next step in the human story”—i.e.,… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great… — Ellen Key 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 can now recognize that the fate of the soul is the fate of the social order; that if the spirit within… — Theodore Roszak Copy Share Image
Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics,… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
The problem of values arises only when men try to fit together their need to be social animals with their need to… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
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