Best Social System Quotes
52 Social System quotes by 42 unique authors
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We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we…
— Wilma Mankiller
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The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of…
— James S. Coleman
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No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.
— John F. Kennedy
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Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.
— Paul Valery
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Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and…
— Li Peng
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Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they…
— Richard Pascale
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Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow…
— Ludwig von Mises
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As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in…
— Carly Fiorina
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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
— John Ralston Saul
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What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples.…
— Bertrand Russell
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Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is…
— Tom Robbins
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The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions…
— Herbert Marcuse
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To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we…
— Derrick Jensen
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The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because…
— Noam Chomsky
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If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.
— Aldous Huxley
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The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.
— Eleanor Catton
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The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such…
— Mao Zedong
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