The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy. — Ludwig von Mises 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
“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa 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
Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system. — John Elkington 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
No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
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
Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system. — Richard Koch 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
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
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic… — Nicholas Negroponte 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
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
In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent… — Jacque Fresco 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
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services… — Jacque Fresco 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
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
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
“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
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
The truth is that capitalism has not only multiplied population figures, but at the same time, improved the people's standard of living… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations… — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
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
“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
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
If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse. — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards… — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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