Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
“Social dynamic theory is philosophy, not politics. There can't be only one correct answer, or there would only be one book." Sharon… — Sharon L. Reddy Copy Share Image
Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as… — Warder Clyde Allee Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“The widely mis-interpreted 1998 'meltdown' of East Asia was a financial symptom of the renewed reality: In fact, it was the first… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for… — Eric Hoffer 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
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
We supported the cooperative movement among farmers. The movement was still young and stubbornly opposed to the commercial distributors. I believed it… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image