Autonomous Quote by Christa Wolf

“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of spontaneous and…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.

— Natan Sharansky

The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap…

— Tommy Douglas

In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions…

— Anthony de Jasay

Dominance in an adaptation to anarchy and it serves no purpose in a society that has undergone a civilising process or in an international…

— Steven Pinker

A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford…

— W. Edwards Deming

“Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of the people…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges…

— Booker T. Washington

There are norms that preserve some equilibrium between chaos and stability in the world; that keep sociopaths like Assad from undermining that equilibrium, and…

— Tom Malinowski

Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these…

— Jimmy Carter

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society…

— Charles Colson

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from…

— Friedrich List