Community Quote by Henry Adams

Any society that entails the strengthening of the state apparatus by giving it unchecked control over the economy, and re-unites the polity and the…

— Robert Higgs

No social stability without individual stability.

— Aldous Huxley

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

“As long as the incomes of the various classes of contemporary society remain beyond the reach of scientific inquiry, there can be no hope…

— Thomas Piketty

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“Imagine a society entirely absorbed in its own historicity. It would be incapable of producing historians. Living entirely under the sign of the future,…

— Pierre Nora

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the…

— Hannah Arendt

All societies are historical.

— Raymond Queneau

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

— Robert Bork

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

— Colin Firth

What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that…

— Kameron Hurley

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

— Jean Chretien