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Quote by William Graham Sumner

“The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.”

Book:The challenge of facts: and other essays

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The challenge of facts: and other essays

This book delves into the complexities of facts, examining their significance and impact across different disciplines and societal aspects. more

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William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner was an influential American political scientist born on October 30, 1840, and died on April 12, 1910. He was a leading figure in social Darwinism and had a profound impact on American political thought from the late 19th to the early 20th century. more

“The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.”

Has Beens Law Order Race Rights Century Revolution Gender Civil Rights Rising Paradox Expanding In-laws Orientation Great Liberal

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“The Great Truth is that women in our society constitute one of the most privileged and powerful classes of human beings on earth. The challenge is to make women believe in their power. "Woman as victim" is an idea whose time has passed. The idea of woman as a survivor and a success must take its place.”

Believe Humans Ideas Earth Challenges Human Beings Powerful Class Truth Is Victim Our Society Survivor Privileged

Author:Wendy McElroy

“The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman.”

Breasts Exposed Headlines

Book:Forward from this Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008

Source: Forward from this Moment: Selected Columns, 1994-2008

“The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.”