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“Government planning not only fails; it tends to produce outcomes that are the opposite of what its proponents say that they favor. The only stable and productive social system is one that embraces human liberty in its totality, and defends the market economy, private property, sound money, and peaceful international relations, while opposing government intervention as economically and socially destructive.”

“The market steers the capitalistic economy. It directs each individual's activities into those channels in which he best serves the wants of his fellow-men. The market alone puts the whole social system of private ownership of the means of production and free enterprise in order and provides it with sense and meaning.”

Men Want Mean Whole Order Individual Social Economy Activity Fellows Productions Enterprise Ownership Fellow Man Steers Free Enterprise Social Systems

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.”

Years Past Social Differences Levels Tools Various Our Society Over The Past Social Systems

Book:Selected speeches and writings

Source: Selected speeches and writings

“A society with too few independent thinkers is vulnerable to control by disturbed and opportunistic leaders. A society which wants to create and maintain a free and democratic social system must create responsible independence of thought among its young.”

Want Young Social Leader Responsible Independent Independence Democratic Vulnerable Thinker Disturbed Social Systems Independence Of Thought

Author:John Dewey

“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization”

Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

“What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.”

Order Social Liberty Objects Normal Primaries Satellites Perversion Social Systems

Author:James Madison

“China seems unpredictable because it has a distinct culture and social system. It is still a mystery to other parts of the world, even though the veil of China has been lifted many times as a result of globalization.”

World Has Beens Stills Seems Culture Social Results Mystery China Unpredictable Veils Globalization Social Systems

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.”

Littles Social Dark Our Lives Information Prison Zone Regions Social Systems

Author:Michel Foucault

“Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same as the capitalist welfare states that have existed in some European countries.”

World Different Country States Social Resources Socialism Welfare Controlled Capitalist Greedy Welfare State Oligarchy Social Systems European Countries

Author:Kshama Sawant

“Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.”

Ifs Needs Mean Would Be Care Christian Social Church Principles Special Institutions Take Care Substance Organized Hiding Wickedness Organized Religion Social Systems

Author:Erich Fromm

“Around the world there are certain marital systems, certain physical systems, political systems, social systems, and all those things are kind of turned on their head but represented in various ways within "The Lobster."”

World Way Kind Political Certain Social Various Around The World Political Systems Social Systems Lobster

Author:Colin Farrell

“To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.”

People Social Principles Organize Social Systems

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.”

Force Social Roles Islam Burden Historian Oppressed Unjust Historic Liberating Recognise Social Systems Social Service

Author:Aly Khan

“The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.”

Should Doe Made Social Cutting Citizens Debt Protection Saving Generous Immigrants Illegal Massive Grants Savings Illegal Immigrants Social Systems

Author:Marine Le Pen

“I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.”

People Thinking Social Issues Failing Communication Projects Machines Dues Social Systems Cultural Issues

Book:Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World

Source: Leaders in Computing: Changing the Digital World

“If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.”

Ifs States Running Social Natural Democracy Capitalism Social Systems

Author:John Ralston Saul

“What we require is not a formal return to tradition and religion, but a rereading, a reinterpretation, of our history that can illuminate the present and pave the way to a better future. For example, if we delve more deeply into ancient Egyptian and African civilisations we will discover the humanistic elements that were prevalent in many areas of life. Women enjoyed a high status and rights, which they later lost when class patriarchal society became the prevalent social system.”

Source: The Nawal El Saadawi Reader

“A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that.”

People Feels Book Enough Philosophy Hate Social Stupid Fit Drink I Hate Medicine Prison Library Impulse Had Enough Secured Unselfish Deathbed Tidy Stoic Social Systems Fussing

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.”

Action Spiritual Young Individual Social Poor Responsibility Intellectual Assuming Inviting Decree Stagnation Social Systems Atrophy

Book:Villa Incognito

Source: Villa Incognito

“The means of communication, the irresistible output of the entertainment and information industry carry with them prescribed attitudes and habits, certain intellectual and emotional reactions which bind the consumers to the producers and, through the latter to the whole social system. The products indoctrinate and manipulate; they promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood...Thus emerges a pattern of one-dimensional thought and behavior.”

“To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them. At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?”

People World Way Want Doe Stills Matter Dream Social Economic Effects Civilization Destructive Sustainability Reverse Embedded Social Systems Intertwined

Author:Derrick Jensen

“I believe that we can create a poverty-free world because poverty is not created by poor people. It has been created and sustained by the economic and social systems that we have designed for ourselves; the institutions and concepts that make up that system; the policies that we pursue.”

People World Believe Has Beens I Believe Social Poor Poverty Economic Policy Concepts Institutions Pursue Poor People Social Systems Free World

Author:Muhammad Yunus

“Present global culture is a kind of arrogant newcomer. It arrives on the planetary stage following four and a half billion years of other acts, and after looking about for a few thousand years declares itself in possession of eternal truths. But in a world that is changing as fast as ours, this is a prescription for disaster. No nation, no religion, no economic system, no body of knowledge, is likely to have all the answers for our survival. There must be many social systems that would work far better than any now in existence. In the scientific tradition, our task is to find them.”

“The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of an option because your life is too structured, organised, controlled and disciplined.”

Want Form Life Is Social Findings What You Want Controlled Social Systems Organised

Author:Noam Chomsky

“If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s law is wrong. Therefore the State should remove the causes of that burden. The human must not be limited and controlled to fit the economic, but the economic must be expanded to fit the human.”

Ifs World Should Humans Children States Today Law Social Causes Economy Economic Fit Capitalism Burden Remove Controlled Preacher Expanding Raising Children Inadequate Social Systems

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.”

Social Dangerous Rounds Holes Squares Discontent Social Systems Peg

Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“The proper way to understand any social system was to view it from above.”

Way Social Views Social Systems

Book:The Luminaries

Source: The Luminaries

“Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.”

Religion Social Defined Agents Approval Participants Social Systems

Author:Daniel Dennett

“A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”

Men Humans Doe Two Social Human Beings Capitalism Socialism Alternatives Cooperation Social Systems Disintegration Capitalism And Socialism

Book:Human action: a treatise on economics

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“The agricultural co-operative movement has been a severe ideological and political struggle from the very beginning. No cooperative can be established without going through such a struggle. Before a brand-new social system can be built on the site of the old, the site must be swept clean. Invariably, remnants of old ideas reflecting the old system remain in people's minds for a long time, and they do not easily give way. After a co-operative is established, it must go through many more struggles before it can be consolidated. Even then, the moment it relaxes its efforts it may collapse.”

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung

“Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.”

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.”

Thinking Firsts Humanity Order Individual Social Easy Forget Cases Study Creatures Solitary Components Fallacy Embedded Lives Of Others Social Systems

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.”

Social Poverty Military Blind Cruelty Warfare Worthless Occasional Pacifism Social Systems Root Cause

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.”

Social Economy Capitalism Consumers Supremacy Market Economy Social Systems

Book:Money, method, and the market process: essays

Source: Money, method, and the market process: essays

“Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.”

Firsts Social Capitalism Historical Social Systems

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“What distinguishes the historical social system we are calling historical capitalism is that in this historical system capital came to be used (invested) in a very special way. It came to be used with the primary objective or intent of self-expansion. In this system, past accumulations were 'capital' only to the extend they were used to accumulate more of the same.”

Way Self Past Used Social Special Calling Capitalism Historical Objectives Primaries Expansion Accumulation Social Systems

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“But even in the absence of direct interference by those who had the power to interfere, the process was usually aborted by the non-availability of one of more elements of the process - the accumulated stock in a money form, the labor-power to be utilized by the producer, the network of distributors, the consumers who were purchasers. One or more elements were missing because, in previous historical social systems, one or more of these elements was not commodified or was insufficiently commodified.”

Form Social Process Missing Elements Capitalism Labor Direct Historical Absence Producers Consumers Interfere Interference Availability Social Systems Distributors Purchasers

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man and the social system. It ought necessarily to precede every other inquiry into social physics, since it is, as it were, the basis. The average man, indeed, is in a nation what the centre of gravity is in a body; it is by having that central point in view that we arrive at the apprehension of all the phenomena of equilibrium and motion.”

“Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.”

Art Order Social Effects Capable Art Is Works Of Art Organisms Social Systems Senile

Book:Joseph Beuys

Source: Joseph Beuys

“The redeeming feature of war is that it puts a nation to the test. As exposure to the atmosphere reduces all mummies to instant dissolution, so war passes supreme judgment upon social systems that have outlived their vitality.”

War Nations Social Judgment Tests Supreme Atmosphere Features Instant Exposure Vitality Dissolution Redeeming Social Systems Mummy

Author:Karl Marx

“What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.”

Order Social Liberty Rights Conflict Fundamentals Discrimination Inequality Reform Social Reform Social Systems Fundamental Rights Social Inequality

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.”

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies.”

Thinking Should War Use Force Social Interest Differences Common Cold Threat Dialogue Ideology Settling Cooperation Cold War Disputes Resorts Social Systems Provocation Common Interests

Author:Wu Bangguo

“Throughout the world, the family is increasingly under attack. If families fail, many of our political, economic, and social systems will also fail.”

Ifs World Political Social Failing Economic Social Systems

Author:Russell M. Nelson

“The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.”

Social Technology Independent Determined Former Dependent Latter Variables Social Systems

Author:Leslie White

“Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.”

Individual Social Rights Capitalism Property Including Recognition Property Rights Individual Rights Social Systems

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.”

“We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us.”

“In my work, I am not attempting to predict the future. I am only pointing out what is possible with the intelligent application and humane use of science and technology. This does not call for scientists to manage society. What I suggest is applying the methods of science to the social system for the benefit of human kind and the environment.”

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