Sexuality ... is at the same time the most personal of realms and also the realm most carefully constrained by social order. — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
“Myth basically serves four functions. The first is the mystical function,... realizing what a wonder the universe is, and what a wonder… — Joseph Campbell 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
“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the… — Harry Blamires Copy Share Image
“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“How differently we behave in other peoples countries ... no sooner than we think we can get away with it, we do… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
The notion of anarchy ...means that once industrial functions have taken over from political functions, then business transactions and exchange alone produce… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
“Equality has a built-in revolutionary force lacking in such ideas as justice or liberty. For once the ideal of equality becomes uppermost,… — Robert Nisbet Copy Share Image
Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, philosophy or intellectual activity in ancient China was distinguished from manual labor, and thus philosophical texts were not… — Hans-Georg Moeller Copy Share Image
“It is worth recalling that Britain, over several centuries, waged a war against homosexuality - in the name of religion, social order,… — Brian Whitaker Copy Share Image
I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down. — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
“A conscious effort has to be made to sustain laws, customs, procedures and manners, otherwise the social order would quickly collapse.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“If Capitalism improves the economic position all round, it is of secondary importance that it does not raise all to the same… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order. — Robert Motherwell 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
Most poverty and suffering - whether in a country, a family or a person - flows from disorganization. A stable social order… — David Brooks 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
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public… — Ray Brassier 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
“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
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
