Nature of man 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