Community Quote by Daron Acemoğlu

“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior can generate…

— Nicholas Wade

Societies depend on agreed rules.

— John Maynard Smith

“The political institutions of a society are a key determinant of the outcome of this game. They are the rules that govern incentives in…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies…

— Michael Ignatieff

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

— Millard Fillmore

“Nothing can appear more contradictory than the principles on which the old governments began, and the condition to which society, civilisation and commerce are…

— Thomas Paine

When one group rules another, the relationship between the two is political. When such an arrangement is carried out over a long period of…

— Kate Millett

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of…

— Kenneth L. Pike

“In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence…

— Emma Goldman

“Modern society, the political body, the legal and judiciary system, the state of governance, capitalism and the very fabric of the society itself, including…

— Bryant McGill

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

“In estimating what amount of power would be requisite to secure the objects of government, we must take into the reckoning, what would be…

— Anonymous