Social System Quotes

52 quotes by 42 authors

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination… — B R Ambedkar
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere… — Rebecca West
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure… — Ayn Rand
A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless. — Mahatma Gandhi
The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy. — Ludwig von Mises
Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system. — Immanuel Wallerstein
What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science… — Adolphe Quetelet
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order… — Joseph Beuys
Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual… — Ayn Rand
The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change,… — Leslie White
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our… — Jacque Fresco
In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. Â I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and… — Jacque Fresco
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests… — Leonid Brezhnev
Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who… — Erik Naggum
The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own… — Ludwig von Mises
The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism. — Clement Attlee

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