Social order Quotes

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

— Marquis de Sade

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

— David Douglas Duncan

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order,

— Margaret Sanger

Truth and justice are the immutable laws of social order.

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

I don't build a house without predicting the end of the present social order.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Lists have always implied social order.

— David Viscott

Women are the true modelers of social order.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Cubans are a people who suffered from capitalism in the cruelest way, in the social order, the economic order and the political…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

“Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and…

— Jonathan Haidt

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a…

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

“A conscious effort has to be made to sustain laws, customs, procedures and manners, otherwise the social order would quickly collapse.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.”

— Simone Weil

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

— Anonymous

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

— H. G. Wells

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which…

— George William Russell

Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt…

— George Carlin

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and…

— Okakura Kakuzo

Tenderness has created the first 'social order' - that of the mother with her offspring. Through motherliness, woman later makes her great…

— Ellen Key

“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

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no…

— Jacques Ellul

Insofar as human beings flower on the ground of freedom, justice guards that ground. Insofar as human beings flower in the soil…

— Jeffrey H Reiman

“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the…

— David Harvey

I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

“The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the discipline of youth. Young…

— Noah Webster

“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

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

“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and…

— Kakuzo Okakura

“It is undoubtedly true that religion is often socially conservative. By binding a people together under a shared God, a common cosmology…

— Steve Bruce

“Poe had invented a genre—the detective story—that played upon but in the end relieved his readers’ urban anxieties. Social order was possible…

— Mike Wallace

“If Marner, through the allegedly compassionate intervention of Eliot and Eppie combined, becomes, in his meek and modest way, a pillar of…

— Lee Edelman

Capitalism as a social order and as a creed is the expression of the belief in economic progress as leading toward the…

— Peter Drucker

“The ending of war, the resolution of poverty, the creation of a material abundance unseen in history to meet human needs, the…

— Tzm Team

“This is an existential threat to the social and economic order, which is why countries wage a stubborn, bloody and hopeless war…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial…

— Terry Eagleton

“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

“One may first point to the obvious fact that a given social order precedes any individual organismic development. That is, world-openness, while…

— Peter L. Berger

“Destruction. Anyone who didn’t know the real meaning of that word now has the opportunity to learn it here. You might have…

— Ivo Andrić

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be…

— Aldous Huxley

“This is what one of the founding fathers of sociology, Emile Durkheim, meant when he wrote in 1895 that the establishment of…

— Gerhard Falk

“To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr