No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue. — John F. Kennedy 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
“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
“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa 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
This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of… — Herbert Schiller 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
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa 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
The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they… — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian… — Raymond J. de Souza 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
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
Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place.… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
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
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 secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. — Zygmunt Bauman 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
Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also… — Russell M. Nelson 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
