I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Egalitarianism is possible only in small social systems. Once a medium gets past a certain size fame is a forced move. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as… — Leslie White Copy Share Image
The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system. — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life.… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the… — Wu Bangguo Copy Share Image
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
Social systems have values - arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter's core argument seems to be, 'Everything should be public,… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving,… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“once in a while, we do need a mapmaker who takes the time to survey the system, uncover hidden paths and powerful… — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea.… — Herbert Hainer Copy Share Image
In Europe there's the upper crust, and these are long, historically families and social systems that have certain established rules that's harder… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“We are slaves whose masters are dead. For we are mostly controlled by doctrines which were established centuries heretofore.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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