Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the… — Manly Hall Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Very few societies on Earth developed science as we know it today. On the other hand, the number is not zero -… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
