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“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.”

Source: Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization

“The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.”

World Long Soul Form Night Order Social Water Behinds Trouble Ought Birth Flow Chaos Contemporary Pregnant Frightening Widows Heirs Desolation Social Order Departing Long Nights

Author:Alexander Herzen

“ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.”

Giving States Government Order Social Meditation Failing Spring Enlightenment Universal Doctrine Damn Abolition Prerequisites Social Order

Author:Kerry Thornley

“So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.”

“Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.”

“There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.”

Source: Les Misérables

“The criterion of mental health is not one of individual adjustment to a given social order, but a universal one, valid for all men, of giving a satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”

Men Giving Humans Problem Order Individual Given Social Answers Existence Universal Mental Health Sanity Criteria Adjustment Human Existence Social Order

Book:The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

Source: The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

“The social order of things has demanded an emphasis on the differences between gender that do not in my opinion in fact exist. I’m not going to go around putting pronouns on everything. Things are often deeply compromised by the set of assumptions you bring to the world, which is this black or white, this male or female.”

World Facts Order Social Black Differences White Opinion Female Males Gender Assumption Emphasis Social Order Black Or White Pronouns

Author:Roni Horn

“The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.”

“The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.”

Two Humanity Order Social Century Debt Contradictory Payment Social Order

Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943

Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943

“The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.”

Writing Wells States Earth Order Social Justice Common Ready Expression Interpretation Feminine Masculine Consensus Ripe Fraternity Social Order

Author:Anna Garlin Spencer

“Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.”

World Order Social Stars Style Flower Birth Taste Bed Diversity Details Related Fearful Quotations Harvest Irrelevant Exile Sleeves Wheat Excluded Judiciary Olives Social Order

Book:The thief's journal

Source: The thief's journal

“By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.”

Men Use Feelings Problem Order Social Grows Brain Known Growing Up Feminism Son Fool Warm Upbringing Social Order Love Freedom

Author:Eugenio Maria de Hostos

“People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.”

People Moving Order Social Economic Revolution Injustice Social Order

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.”

Wells Form Political Order Social Interest Behinds Citizens Capable Organization Lays Property Favors Stable Promoting Social Order Federalism

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.”

Trying Desire Order Social Rebellious Social Order

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more