Agents Quote by David Buss

There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act…

— Richard R. Nelson

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more…

— Edmund Burke

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?

— Seneca the Younger

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the…

— Ruth Benedict

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy,…

— Bertrand Russell

Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.

— Theodor Adorno

I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it.

— Albert Einstein

“Society has already become a most artificial system of complicated relations, a gigantic organism, wherein all members are closely connected. All this demands help…

— Herman Bavinck

“I spent the beginning of my focus on activism by doing what most everyone else was doing; blaming other people and institutions. Don’t like…

— Peter Joseph

In the 'in-itself' there is nothing of 'causal connections', of 'necessity', or of 'psychological non-freedom'; there the effect does not follow the cause, there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche