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- All that Lenin learned about business from the tales of his comrades who occasionally sat in business offices was that it required a lot of…
- Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
- When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the…
- The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at…
- In the capitalist society there is a place and bread for all. Its ability to expand provides sustenance for every worker. Permanent unemployment is not…
- We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of…
- People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own…
- The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself…
- The continued existence of society depends upon private property.
- War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society…
- The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a…
- Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages derived…
- The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability…
- The member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon…
- It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the…
- Society cannot contribute anything to the breeding and growing of ingenious men. A creative genius cannot be trained. There are no schools for creativeness. A…
- There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range…
- Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.
- The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the…
- Scientific research sooner or later, but inevitably, encounters something ultimately given that it cannot trace back to something else of which it would appear as…
- The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.
- Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace.
- Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders; no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find…
- The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is…
- The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society…
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- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics met at… — Rudolf Arnheim
- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi