Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims. — Zsuzsanna Budapest 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
Poverty calls us to sow hope… Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
the gender of God, God's presumed masculinity, has functioned as the ultimate religious legitimization of the unjust social structures which victimize women. — Sandra Marie Schneiders Copy Share Image
[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged… — Horace Rowan Gaither Copy Share Image
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities. — Steven Rattner Copy Share Image
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes… — John Boyd Orr 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
Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
The true conservative is not at home in social struggle. He will attempt to avoid unbridgeable schism, because he knows that a… — Henry A. Kissinger 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
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
Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society… — Talcott Parsons 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
Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side,” is now out! Quote: “Vampires let us play with death… — Margot Adler 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
“The resurrection is a kind of surrealist moment in the Gospels, one in which Jesus appears to step out of the reality… — Sandor Goodhart 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
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 belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The… — Pope Francis 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
“in this direction-and he has been dead for not more than a quarter of a century. His influence is far more subtle… — Christopher Hyatt Copy Share Image
“As they walked, Tehol spoke. ‘…the assumption is the foundation stone of Letherii society, perhaps all societies the world over. The notion… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“One example of systematic oppression is structural violence. This concept was introduced in the 1970s by Johan Galtung, a pioneering Norwegian researcher… — Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky 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
“The Union of South Africa divided the functionality of government between Cape Town and Pretoria. Cape Town was the Administrative Capital and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Opening lines of The Great Indian Novel narrated as a modern day MahaBharata. They tell me India is an underdeveloped country. They… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure. It's not only the artist I'm… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The most frightening pages of history are those which reveal how easily conditions making a desert of the human spirit may come… — Haniel Long 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
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
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
Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for… — David Vitter Copy Share Image
The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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