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“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.”

“The identification with the common lot which is the essential idea of Democracy becomes the source and expression of social ethics. It is as though we thirsted to drink at the great wells of human experience, because we knew that a daintier or less potent draught would not carry us to the end of the journey, going forward as we must in the heat and jostle of the crowd.”

Humans Wells Ideas Ends Social Common Democracy Journey Expression Source Drink Essentials Ethics Crowds Heat Human Experience Identification Draught

Book:Democracy and Social Ethics

Source: Democracy and Social Ethics

“Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.”

Believe Has Beens Enough Problem Today Social Community Source Accounts Rapids Breakdown Social Problems Rapid Change

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”

Has Beens War Seems Lying Social Poor Behinds Violence Groups Produce Source Research Historical Historian Murderer Avoided Parental Abusive Mothering Sociologists Historical Research

Author:Lloyd deMause

“In the course of the twenty-first century what may be called the "capital wage" could be added to the labor wage and the social wage, so that middle-class Americans - not merely an affluent minority - might derive income from three sources rather than just two.”

Firsts May Two Wisdom Might Three Courses Politics Social Class Economy Middle Century Source Labor Twenties Income Liberalism Minorities Middle Class Affluent

Author:Michael Lind

“My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.”

Real Social Views Atheism Source Morality Ethics Claims Aim Cancer Positive Atheism Command Chiefs Cells Obedience Impulse Length Combat Allegiance Sanctions

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.”

Age Past Lost Social Break Atheism Source Ancient Appearance Positive Atheism Mythology Golden Revolutionary Paradise Feds Engineers Utopia Legendary Blueprints Golden Age

Book:the god that failed

Source: the god that failed

“A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.”

Soul Social Virtue Rich Sweet Source Pure Mischief Tranquil

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems.”

Problem Social Feminism Economic Source Convinced Lists Endless Contemporary Liberation Womens Rights Laundry Scourge Backlash Economic Problems

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.”

Humanity Social Water Progress Conditions Movement Source Circumstances Ocean Eternity Currents Impulse Social Change Social Progress

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.”

Social Powerful Source Acquaintance Tipping Point Social Power

Author:Malcolm Gladwell