Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
Every individual is fighting his own war for survival against the system.And system is destroying the sanctity of an individual — Madhu Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to… — Tim Berners-Lee 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
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
[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves 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
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
Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made… — Robert K. Merton 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
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
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
The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology.… — Simon Conway Morris 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
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
...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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its… — Michael Korda 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
Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor.… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is,… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us to change the mindset which has tended to create ad hoc solutions for the… — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image