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Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It is, let me say, at the very least by no means self-evident that there is more liberty, equality, and fraternity in the world today… — Immanuel Wallerstein
I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Communism is Utopia, that is nowhere. It is the avatar of all our religious eschatologies: the coming of the Messiah, the second coming of Christ,… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It seems to me the only pertinent question is: cui bono? It is clear that the size of the privileged strata as a percentage of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new… — Immanuel Wallerstein
We seem to be in the midst of a process of cascading bifurcations that may last some 50 more years. We can be sure some… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Are there still other possibilities? Of course there are. What is important to recognize is that all three historical options are really there, and the… — Immanuel Wallerstein
[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of… — Charles Edward Merriam
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect… — Franz Boas
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical… — Karl Marx
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and… — Mary McCarthy
I think a lot of my interest in history now isn't so much in places and names and texts and public figures, but more in… — Sufjan Stevens
Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin. — Albert Camus
It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools… — Henry Lawson
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no… — Edith Hamilton
Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won.… — Michael Ventura
In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation. — Johann Baptist Metz
Jesus' death by crucifixion under Pontius Pilate is as sure as anything historical can ever be. For if no follower of Jesus had written anything… — John Dominic Crossan
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do… — John Dominic Crossan
The alleged Hitlerite gas chambers and the alleged genocide of the Jews constitute one and the same historical lie, which made possible a gigantic financial-political… — Robert Faurisson
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity. — Stephen Batchelor

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