Century Quote by Robert Gilpin

The credit derivative market would never have evolved but for the preexistence of the derivative markets because so much of the technology was borrowed.

— Blythe Masters

One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in…

— John G. D. Clark

Capitalism and socialism are two distinct patterns of social organization. Private control of the means of production and public control are contradictory notions and…

— Ludwig von Mises

What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

— Milton Friedman

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

— Carl F. H. Henry

The system of patriarchy is a historic construct; it has a beginning; it will have an end. Its time seems to have nearly run…

— Gerda Lerner

“It is essential to realize that the Christian community in the past was not a pious ideal, but a juridical fact which underlay the…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

When we consider the close connection between science and industrial development on the one hand, and between literary and aesthetic cultivation and an aristocratic…

— John Dewey

Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

— P. J. O'Rourke

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on…

— Geoffrey West

Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions…

— Daniel Katz

“The social organization of Heart of Darkness – captured in the corporate culture of the ‘Company’ – is a metonym for modernity. It is…

— Stephen Ross