Country Quote by Marshall McLuhan

“Community, Identity, Stability”

— Aldous Huxley

“It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed,…

— George Orwell

Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section…

— Michael Haneke

No social stability without individual stability.

— Aldous Huxley

“If it once became general, wealth would confer no distraction. It was possible no doubt to imagine a society in the sense of personal…

— George Orwell

Villages are small and personal, and their inhabitants have names, characters, and personalities. What more appropriate concept on which to base our institutions of…

— Charles Handy

There are three ways of securing a society that shall be stable as regards population. The first is that of birth control, the second…

— Bertrand Russell

The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society…

— Carroll Quigley

Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the freeplay of economic forces,…

— Johan Huizinga

“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I…

— Ronald Wright

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become…

— George Orwell

“In 1999, the anthropologist Christopher Boehm addressed this issue in Hierarchy in the Forest, which reviewed the lifestyles of dozens of small-scale human groups.…

— Paul Bloom