Ideas Quote by Keith Olbermann

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

— Paul Collier

“They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a…

— Charles Stross

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

— Lady Starlight

It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.

— Chris Asplen

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and…

— Milton Friedman

“The development of specific mechanisms of social controls also becomes necessary with the historicization and objectivation of institutions. Deviance from the institutionally “programmed” courses…

— Peter L. Berger

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

— Florynce Kennedy

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

— Jacque Fresco

“We had better want the consequences of what we believe or disbelieve, because the consequences will come! . . . But how can a…

— Neal A. Maxwell

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly…

— Slavoj Žižek

We often seem to be swimming through such a miasma of sexual violence - in advertising, television programming, heavy metal, rap, films, and worst…

— Molly Ivins

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

— Harrison Ford