The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be… — Richard Roberts Copy Share Image
The entire social order ... is arrayed against a woman who wants to rise to a man's reputation. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one… — Naomi Wolf 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
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order. — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“About the cathouse: the notion that an accepted element in the social order is a whorehouse goes hand in hand with the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ...… — Emily James Smith Putnam Copy Share Image
“Every social order incorporates among its key taboos the notion that people living in it should not think about how it will… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order.… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The crowds, the praise, and the power are neither just nor unjust in themselves. As they are typically used in the schools,… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of… — Anna Garlin Spencer 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
“THE LAST 500 YEARS HAVE WITNESSED A breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
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
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
“If human society produces children like cats and dogs for the disturbance of social order, then the world becomes hellish, as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This system of chain wars can end only in two ways: either it will result in horrible physical destructions and concomitant revolutionary… — Eric Voegelin Copy Share Image
“Dewey insisted that the present attachment to the principles and values of the American founding must be repudiated and replaced with the… — Mark R. Levin 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
“The idea of the “people,” as the fount of legitimate order ... has been of some service to the left-liberal intellectual in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“recent events compel us to raise anew. From the beginning, the most serious and systematic attempts to write Universal Histories saw the… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“Mustapha Mond paused, put down the first book and, picking up the other, turned over the pages. “Take this, for example,” he… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“and self-responsibility can only occur where the child is surrounded with moral behavior and allowed to grow her own understanding of the… — Kelly Bryson Copy Share Image
“The ancient world found an end to anarchy in the Roman Empire, but the Roman Empire was a brute fact, not an… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social… — Al Sharpton 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 emergence of Pakistan, a decade ago, was an act of protest against the existence of privilege in the social order of… — Aly Khan Copy Share Image
“there’s gonna be a riot before this thing is over. A riot, or worse. Folks don’t realize how fragile the social order… — Sean Chercover Copy Share Image
