Absolutism Quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“I have called it a Great Splintering, not purely an economic phenomenon, but a social one: an era where social contracts are being torn…

— Umair Haque

“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand”

— Aindra Das

There are interesting tensions that will naturally occur with any relationship. No matter what setting, what era, the tension is very, very real. It's…

— Lyriq Bent

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence…

— Emma Goldman

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

— Emile Durkheim

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

— John Stuart Mill

“Relationality [is] not only [a] descriptive or historical fact of our formation, but also an ongoing normative dimension of our social and political lives,…

— Judith Butler

Complex things oftentimes disrupt social norms.

— Simon Tam

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

— Mark Doty

The social contract is starting to unravel in many countries.

— Jose Angel Gurria

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

— John Boyd Orr