The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Indias rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Almost all the things you can do online can be enhanced by the social structure of MySpace. — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“In transplanting the paesani culture of southern Italy to the hills of eastern Pennsylvania, the Rosetans had created a powerful, protective social… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Stirner's political praxis is quixotic. It accepts the established hierarchies of constraint as given. ... Not liable to any radical change, they… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
“...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions… — Richard C. Longworth Copy Share Image
Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“In 1999, the anthropologist Christopher Boehm addressed this issue in Hierarchy in the Forest, which reviewed the lifestyles of dozens of small-scale… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Our founders did not believe that our society could thrive without this kind of moral social structure. In fact, it was our… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
“Not so much because many occupations would not permit of a loving attitude, but because the spirit of a production-centered, commodity-greedy society… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“All of us sit here at this conference and feel secure in our belief that we live in an era beyond this… — Margret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
“I saw headline in paper: CONGRESS VOWS FIGHT ON CRIME. and I almost sat down and wrote a mother essay, 8 or… — charles bukowski Copy Share Image
“Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“It is quite possible for abstruse theoretical formulations to be concocted in near-total isolation from the broad movements in the social structure,… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Domesticity is a fact of how social structure works. So if you say, "Well being domestic as a female is a negative… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“The law was applied in accordance to social structure. A dope using poor man was bound for prison. A wealthy farm boy… — R.E. Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Every human being wants to be seen, really seen, by another human being, not as a statistic in some sociological study, not… — Nancy Rue Copy Share Image
It is the shortcomings of game theory (as originally formulated) which force the consideration of the role of ethics, of the dynamics… — Anatol Rapoport Copy Share Image
It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image