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“The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.”

Social Practice Relation Primitive Social Relations

Book:The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

Source: The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses

“A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.”

“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.”

Social Fear Relation Equity Social Relations

Book:Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.”

Should Ends Law Social Relation Regard Obedience Laws Of Nature Cradle Tombs Social Relations

Author:Hosea Ballou

“For one to be free there must be at least two. Freedom signifies a social relation, an asymmetry of social conditions: essentially it implies social difference--it presumes and implies the presence of social division. Some can be free only in so far as there is a form of dependence they can aspire to escape.”

Two Form Social Differences Conditions Relation Division Aspire Dependence Social Conditions Social Relations Asymmetry Social Division

Book:Freedom

Source: Freedom

“Objectively, class differences in accent, dress, manners, and general style of life are very much smaller; and one cannot, strolling about the street or travelling on a train, instantly identify a person's social background as one can in England. Subjectively, social relations are more natural and egalitarian, and less marked by deference, submissiveness, or snobbery, as one quickly discovers from the cab-driver, the barman, the air-hostess and the drug-store assistant.”

“The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence only in fairly recent times.”

Social Existence Conditions Capitalism Relation Labour Spheres Social Relations

Author:David Harvey

“Satyagraha means insistence on what one knows to be the truth. The insistence implies the exercise of free will as the need of social obligation. If one is content to know the truth himself, he does not become a votary of Satyagraha. A Satyagrahi should not only know the truth but should insist upon it in social relations. So Satyagraha is activation of truthfulness.”

“The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.”

Doe Turns Individual Social Moral Atheism Relation Atheist Positive Atheism Likes Obligation Truthfulness Insistence Implied Satyagraha Social Relations Social Obligation Moral Freedom

Author:Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.”

Men Mind Believe Humans Doe States Social Grows Millions Perception Relation Tyranny Human Mind State Of Mind Despots Gullibility Social Relations

Book:Human Work

Source: Human Work

“Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.”

Mother Social Moral Wife Relation Fundamentals Characteristics Domesticity Wives And Mothers Housekeepers Social Relations Homemaker

Author:R. Heber Newton

“In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.”

Mean Reading Social Revolution Perfection Relation Screens Visible Flash Social Relations

Author:Nikola Tesla

“The nation relies upon public discussion as one of the indispensable means to attain correct solutions to problems of social welfare. Curtailment of free speech limits this open discussion. Our whole history teaches that adjustment of social relations through reason is possible when free speech is maintained.”