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“Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.”

“Constructing a social system that tends to those who agree with it is a piece of cake compared to constructing one that makes those who disagree with it want to obey its principles.”

Want Social Principles Pieces Agree Cake Disagree Social Systems

Author:Erik Naggum

“Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.”

“Individual talent is too sporadic and unpredictable to be allowed any important part in the organization society. Social systems which endure are built on the average person who can be trained to occupy any position adequately if not brilliantly.”

Ifs Persons Important Individual Social Talent Position Built Organization Endure Average Unpredictable Average Person Social Systems Sporadic Individual Talent

Book:The Proper Study of Mankind ...: An Inquiry Into the Science of Human Relations

Source: The Proper Study of Mankind ...: An Inquiry Into the Science of Human Relations

“We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.”

Social Losing Stability Governing Social Systems

Author:Paul Hawken

“The market economy is the social system of the division of labor under private ownership of the means of production. Everybody acts on his own behalf; but everybodys actions aim at the satisfaction of other peoples needs as well as at the satisfaction of his own. Everybody in acting serves his fellow citizens.”

Source: Human action: a treatise on economics

“The organizer of industry who thinks he has 'made' himself and his business has found a whole social system ready to his hand in skilled workers, machinery, a market, peace and order - a vast apparatus and a pervasive atmosphere, the joint creation of millions of men and scores of generations. Take away the whole social factor, and we have not Robinson Crusoe with his salvage from the wreck and his acquired knowledge, but the native savage living on roots, berries and vermin.”

“No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.”

Social Money Greater Inspired Prosperity Materialism Social Systems

Author:Clement Attlee

“Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.”

Individual Force Social Rights Capitalism Recognition Bans Individual Rights Laissez Faire Social Systems Social Relationships Laissez Faire Capitalism

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.”

Trying Hard Home Government Turns Social Doors Doctors Addresses Covering Brutality Social Systems Handcuffs

Author:Tyler Cowen

“What distinguishes exemplary boards is that they are robust, effective social systems . . .The highest performing companies have extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable.”

Social Company Subjects Highest Treats Regard Obligation Performing Boards Dissent Robust Social Systems Exemplary Contentious

Author:Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

“In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.”

Littles Order Social Class Progress Duty Civilization Skills Lows Intellect Fidelity Vigor Refinement Drudgery Social Systems

Book:Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

Source: Selections from the Letters and Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond: Of South Carolina

“The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.”

Nations Social Military Aspect Independent Sections Totality Social Systems

Book:Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

Source: Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

“The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.”

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

“To get useful new ideas, we must go beyond our immediate circle and make contact with distant parts of the social system.”

Ideas Social Circles Contact New Ideas Social Systems

Book:Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links

Source: Superconnect: Harnessing the Power of Networks and the Strength of Weak Links

“Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.”

Doe Social Change Inspiring Impulse Preserves Revolutionary Stereotype Social Systems Tokenism

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.”

Made Ideas Science Social Findings Scientist Accounts Claims Lays Made It Recognition Contribution Peers Domain Scholarship Social Systems Public Domain

Author:Robert K. Merton

“We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.”

People Way Stills Different Reason Age America Culture Language Social Happened Nuclear Despite Celebrate Different Ways Feds Thanksgiving Pilgrim Social Systems

Author:Wilma Mankiller

“The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.”

School Social Process Produce High School Structure Response Rewards Boots Social Systems

Author:James S. Coleman

“In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.”

“This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.”

Ifs War Government Past Social Army Russia Paris Communist Territory Social Systems

Author:Joseph Stalin

“No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.”

People Government Evil Social Virtue Lacking Social Systems

Author:John F. Kennedy

“We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.”

“Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.”

Action Social Community Aim Unity Related Social Life Social Systems

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.”

Moments Social Rights Society Social Systems

Author:Paul Valery

“Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.”

Self Order Social Draws Organization Down And Assumption Contrast Social Systems Top Down

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.”

Humans Individual Social Human Beings Structure Complexes Social Systems

Book:Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

Source: Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead

“Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.”

Should Running Heaven Social Essentials Ideals Machines Routine Factories Components Statesmen Social Systems Clockwork Seventh Heaven

Book:Adventures of Ideas

Source: Adventures of Ideas

“While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.”

Firsts Stills Evil Social Waiting Born Steps Class Rich Doors Groups Students Son Honor Population Dues Opening Controlled Select Harvard Fashionable Social Systems Undergraduate

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.”

Thinking Way Different War Seems Age Social Achieve Solutions Capitalism Nuclear Socialism Contradiction Bows Arrows Coexist Social Systems Bows And Arrows Capitalism And Socialism

Author:Fidel Castro

“More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.”

Way Giving Important Government Social Waiting Challenges Space Issues Land Materials Walking Moon Built Opening Frontiers Star Gazing Social Systems

Author:Gerard K. O'Neill

“Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.”

People Problem Political Social Business Behinds Technology Economic Solutions Digital Divides Social Systems Conjunctions Digital Divide

Author:Carly Fiorina

“We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.”

Thinking Mind Wells Social Situation Media Messages Handle Acknowledge Affected Social Systems Handicapped

Author:Aloe Blacc

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