Able Quote by James Truslow Adams

For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to…

— Slavoj Žižek

“To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for…

— James Truslow Adams

“Without commerce, advanced social orders can’t evolve, so we’re stuck in the primitive state where every nerd fabricates everything from first principles.”

— Brad Cox

“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of the extinction…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Human beings and their social orders are intrinsically imperfectible and fortunately so. In a constantly changing world, we need the flexibility that only imperfection…

— Edward O. Wilson

Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history…

— Timothy B. Tyson

In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social…

— Nish Kumar

A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused…

— Lester R. Brown

The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the…

— Alexander Herzen

“In Shivaite tradition, the god's companions are described as a troupe of freakish, adventurous, delinquent and wild young people, who prowl in the night,…

— Alain Daniélou

When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing…

— Hanna Rosin

I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid…

— Helen Keller

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and…

— Robert Briffault

The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent…

— Ludwig von Mises