These two opposed forms of social organization, the modern state and the market, have evolved together through recent centuries, and their mutual… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists… — Daniel Katz Copy Share Image
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about… — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated,… — Hank Nuwer Copy Share Image
Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Anarchism does not repudiate the right of ownership, but it has a conception thereof sufficiently different from [others'] to include the possibility… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image