“We have much to contribute to the world; ways of knowing and being that are going to be essential to everyone's survival on our planet. As true citizens of Australia, properly acknowledged in our constitution, we can look forward not only to improving our own lot, but helping Australia contribute to the well-being of all the world's peoples.” WorldWayInspirationalWellsLooksHelpingEarthChangeKnowingSocietyPlanetsCitizensFutureEssentialsSurvivalSelf ImprovementConstitutionWell BeingContributionChanging The WorldAustraliaImprovingLooking ForwardOur PlanetContribution To Society Author:Patrick Dodson
“[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.” WayDoeTwoStatesReasonHandsPoliticalOrderIndividualForceSocialDecisionSocietyBottomAffairAssociationMechanismInteractionPersuasionTwo WaysEloquenceCivil Society Author:Ed Crane
“Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.” IfsMenWayHumansPersonsMightLawFallNaturalTakenViolenceSocietyAuthorityInjusticeInnocentWickedExposedHuman SocietyInnocent Person Book:Discourses on Government Source: Discourses on Government
“Society must be organized in such a way that mans social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it.” WaySocialExistenceSocietyOrganizedArt Of LovingLoving Nature Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.” WorldWaySelfFoundIndividualTermInterestDealsSuccessfulProgressSocietySucceedCollectivesSelf InterestOutside WorldCollective Good Author:James Fallows
“There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.” WorldWayTermSocietyChaosConfusionAppealsChaos And Confusion Book:The Happy Critic and Other Essays Source: The Happy Critic and Other Essays