Best social & social-systems Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.”

People Country Light Social Conditions Development Characteristics Social Systems

Author:Li Peng

“Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.”

Wells Law Social Change Progress Well Being Organisms Preservation Cautious Social Systems Progress And Change

Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

“Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.”

Social Knowledge Learning Information Communication Management Insight Contrary Transfers Social Life Embedded Social Systems

Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems

“Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.”

Men Able Individual Social Function Aim Fellows Competition Valuable Fellow Man Social Systems

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“In order to survive, all systems must evolve by providing greater and greater access to the currents that flow through them. This applies to all physical, biological and social systems that survive and thrive.... But let’s take that one step forward... the systems just described are ... constantly evolving. This suggests another design principle: ... design for evolution rather than creating a static design optimizing for the present.”

Order Social Steps Principles Greater Design Evolution Creating Flow Currents Access Evolve Thrive Providing Static Steps Forward Social Systems

Author:John Hagel

“As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has no reference, either immediately or remotely, to a social end, this tears asunder thy life, and does not allow it to be one, and it is of the nature of a mutiny, just as when in a popular assembly a man acting by himself stands apart from the general agreement.”

Men Doe Art Ends Social Acting Tears Agreement Components Thyself Assembly Social Life Social Systems Mutiny

Book:沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

Source: 沉思錄:讀了一百年還要再讀一百年的不朽鉅著

“[O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.”

Social Results Pages Translate Impressive Straightforward Social Systems Very Impressive

Book:The Sociological Imagination

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.”

Way May Real Helping Light Social Wealth Struggle Progress Violence Mankind Fashion Position Mass Technique Excellent Brutal Crude Renounce Social Progress Social Systems Premium

Author:A. J. Muste

“If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect.”

Ifs Knows World Way Should Social Blame Intellect Meaning Of Life Places In The World Social Systems

Book:A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

Source: A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se

“I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and silencing them forever.”

Men World Has Beens Important Spirit Social Forever He Man Capable Critical Convinced Accomplished Ritual Preservation Barbarism Social Systems Inquiring Silencing Critical Spirit

Book:It Can't Happen Here

Source: It Can't Happen Here

“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”

“I believe there are huge numbers of people in this country who would be willing to have radical changes in our economic and social system in order to make it a more egalitarian society and do away with homelessness and hunger and clean up the environment. But these people have no voice. They have no way of expressing themselves. Elections give them no way of expressing themselves.”

“The long history of mankind is studded with convergences, perhaps most notably in social systems and the use of artefacts and technology. But for human history, set in the arrow of time, there appears to be one intolerable stumbling-block. This is the catastrophic failure in human values and decency.”

Humans Long Use Values Social Technology Mankind Block Human History Decency Arrows Stumbling Human Values Social Systems Convergence Stumbling Blocks Artefacts

Author:Simon Conway Morris

“Terrorism is carried out purposefully, in a cold-blooded, calculated fashion. The declared goals of the terrorist may change from place to place. He supposedly fights to remedy wrongs -- social, religious, national, racial. But for all these problems his only solution is the demolition of the whole structure of society. No partial solution, not even the total redressing of the grievance he complains of, will satisfy him -- until our social system is destroyed or delivered into his hands.”

“The thing to understand is that if you are going to reform society you don't start with cops. And if you are going to reform intellect you don't start with psychiatrists. If you don't like our present social system or intellectual system the best thing you can do with either cops or psychiatrists is stay out of their way. You leave them 'till last.”

Ifs Way Lasts Social Growth Can Do Intellectual Intellect Reform Best Things Cop Psychiatrist Social Systems

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.”

“But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.”

Social Term Benefits Deny Revolutionary Acceptable Savages Social Systems

Author:Herbert Schiller

“One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.”

“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.”

“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.”

Thinking Hard Would Be Force Social Interest Wealth Roles Gone Economic Fashion Capitalism Owners Shed Accord Approved Anonymity Adverse Social Systems Connotation Terminology

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.”

Thinking Long Social Natural Racism Lonely Artificial Social Systems Southerner

Author:Carson McCullers

“Unless we do change our whole way of thought about work, I do not think we shall ever escape from the appalling squirrel-cage of economic confusion in which we have been madly turning for the last three centuries or so, the cage in which we landed ourselves by acquiescing in a social system based upon Envy and Avarice. A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Whole Lasts Order Three Social Work Economic Century Waste Economics Productions Envy Confusion Consumption Cages Trash Avarice Squirrels Social Systems

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.”

Together Religion Strong Social Liberty Backbone Pedestal Social Systems Granite Mortar

Author:Thomas Guthrie

“The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.”

Helping Social Economic Needed Capitalism Rate Imperialism Advancement Alarms Attainment Secured Surplus Social Systems Mobilization

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth

“Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.”

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Book:History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

Source: History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition

“This war is not as in the past: whoever occupies a territory also imposes his own social system.”

World War Past Social War Of The Worlds Territory World War 2 Social Systems

Author:Joseph Stalin

“Modern schools and universities push students into habits of depersonalized learning, alienation from nature and sexuality, obedience to hierarchy, fear of authority, self-objectification, and chilling competitiveness. These character traits are the essence of the twisted personality-type of modern industrialism. They are precisely the character traits needed to maintain a social system that is utterly out of touch with nature, sexuality and real human needs.”

Source: Witchcraft and the Gay counterculture: a radical view of Western civilization and some of the people it has tried to destroy

“There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery”

Social Wealth Increase Misery Core Rotten Social Systems

Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60

Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Marx and Engels Collected Works 1858-60

“There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social scientist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that of the role of knowledge in social systems, both as a product of the past and as a determinant of the future.”

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Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The social system tends to be dominated by images... especially of the future, which act cybernetically, constantly guided by perceived divergences between the real and the ideal.”

Real Social Ideals Social Systems Divergence

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.”

“Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.”

Source: Guerrilla Warfare

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