Best Social Order Quotes
93 Social Order quotes by 82 unique authors
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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
— Dorothy Day
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Charity wins awards and applause, but joining the poor gets you killed. People do not get crucified for charity. People are crucified for living out a love…
— Shane Claiborne
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Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful…
— Luis J. Rodriguez
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often been called, since on principle…
— Rudolf Rocker
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The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order…
— David Harvey
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The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order would result in an almost…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious…
— Bill Mollison
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Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures…
— Robert Briffault
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Coming out is a means of redefining oneself, of claiming membership in a lifestyle and a social order with distinct values. Chief among these values…
— Lance Loud
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Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical…
— Paul Hawken
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You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order and…
— Eben Moglen
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As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its…
— Gustav Stresemann
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We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. Romantics, idealists, eccentrics, we inhabit single-dom as our natural resting state. In a…
— Sasha Cagen
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Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of…
— George Carlin
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One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to…
— Bernard Crick
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To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe…
— Dorothy Day
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The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will…
— Joseph Conrad
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Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts.…
— Will Durant
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The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing…
— Alexander Herzen
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ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite…
— Kerry Thornley
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There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability…
— Victor Hugo
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The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of…
— Erich Fromm
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The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not…
— Roni Horn
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The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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