Conventionalism Quote by Frédéric Bastiat

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes…

— Edward W. Said

“I readily discovered the prodigious influence that this primary fact exercises on the whole course of society; it gives a peculiar direction to public…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind.…

— Raymond Geuss

I have respect for mother nature's methods of robustness (billions of years allow most of what is fragile to break); classical thought is more…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.”

— Noam Chomsky

“A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society, then the rest of the world, toward a state of relative indifferentiation never before…

— René Girard

“Natural law is superior as it allows for the pursuit of virtue genuinely initiated from within and themselves.”

— Patrick Mendis

“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who…

— Henry Clay

We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the 'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the…

— Michel Foucault