Acknowledgement Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It…

— Morarji Desai

“Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.”

— Leo Tolstoy

One reads the truer deeper facts of Reconstruction with a great despair. It is at once so simple and human, and yet so futile.…

— Anonymous

“There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for…

— Walter Rodney

“[...] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced.”

— Kathy Acker

“In a market economy, a main determinant of social standing is participation in the labor market and the associated willingness to 'self-commodify' (e.g., Esping-Andersen…

— Ravi Kanbur

Our society is intertwined with the economy that we've built, which is a fantastically complex system. I hope that my writing about it might…

— Tim Harford

“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a…

— Anonymous

“What I criticize under the name Utopian engineering recommends the reconstruction of society as a whole, i.e. very sweeping changes whose practical consequences are…

— Karl R. Popper

“At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive laws and accept traditions often at…

— Jean Vanier

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

— Albion Woodbury Small

A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of…

— Theodore Kaczynski