Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the… — Richard Pascale Copy Share Image
The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life… — 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
People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury… — Jack McDevitt 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
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
Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
...all man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth.… — Charlie Munger 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
Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create… — John Dewey 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
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster 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
Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, productivity of labour is the most important, the principal thing for the victory of the new social system. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
