“I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.” WorldFactsChristianPoliticalSocialChristSinEducationProveEthicsReignComprehensiveUnbeliefAtheisticAnti ChristianAnti SocialPropagation Author:Archibald Alexander Hodge
“If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.” IfsWellsMeanArtShowsWisdomWould BeLiteraturePoliticsNationsSocialPrinciplesTeachEconomyMankindMaterialsCivilizationProveAchievementPropertyCommittedProductionsWell BeingLiberalismOwnershipRisenPrivate PropertySocial Systems Author:Ludwig von Mises
“The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed.” FactsLastsFormPoliticalCultureLeftSocialProcessTechnologySuccessfulEconomicProductsProvePerceptionEverydayAbandonedEntityTechnologicalEveryday LifeSelectionInabilityIntegratedRetrospectArtifacts Author:Johannes Grenzfurthner
“To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.” EndsOrderSocialEffortProveSocial OrderIndestructible Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“The American people owe it to themselves, and to the cause of free Government, to prove by their establishments for the advancement and diffusion of knowledge, that their political Institutionsare as favorable to the intellectual and moral improvement of Man as they are conformable to his individual and social rights.” PeopleMenGovernmentPoliticalIndividualSocialCausesEducationMoralRightsProveIntellectualImprovementEstablishmentAdvancementFree GovernmentDiffusion Book:Selected Writings of James Madison Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.” MindHas BeensStatesPoliticalPurposeForceSocialTheoryHabitProveTaxesDoctorsClubsDuesSpheresRevenueLiving OnAnalogiesSocial ScienceHabits Of Mind Author:Joseph A. Schumpeter