Effort Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

“Within the reigning social order, the general public must remain an object of manipulation, not a participant in thought, debate, and decision.”

— Noam Chomsky

When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long…

— Suzanne La Follette

“First, you never admit that the order is imagined. You always insist that the order sustaining society is an objective reality”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Ask why you can’t lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must always have…

— Rose Wilder Lane

“Just as order works itself from out of the chaos, decentralization is able to unite.”

— VD

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

— Aldous Huxley

“One should bear in mind that there is nothing more difficult to execute, nor more dubious of success, nor more dangerous to administer, than…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Just as order works itself from out of the chaos, decentralization is capable of uniting.”

— VD

“Charged with the mission of operating beyond the boundaries of civilization with minimal support and no communication from higher authority, they lived and often…

— Thomas W. Knowles

“This is the mark of great ideas: they unify people and they also act to unify the disparate parts of the human being; they…

— Jacob Needleman

I don't think you can impose a social order from the top down.

— David Douglas Duncan