Social Order Quotes - Page 5

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

Art, Anger, Order

Charles Horton Cooley (2015). “Life and the Student: Roadside Notes on Human Nature, Society, and Letters”, p.61, Transaction Publishers

14 Copy quote

Show source
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Christopher Lasch

Order, Overcoming, Today

Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.11, W. W. Norton & Company

84 Copy quote

Show source
Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Nelson Mandela

Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

18 Copy quote

Show source
In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

Jonathan Sacks

Thinking, Order, Inspire

"Celebrating Faith, Altruism And Our Modern Community" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2011.

4 Copy quote

Show source
My ministry's always been one of social activism. I think a responsible minister must be at some levels involved in the social order.

Al Sharpton

Thinking, Order, Ministry

8 Copy quote
Lists have always implied social order.

David Viscott

Order, Lists, Social

17 Copy quote
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

J. G. Ballard

Order, Optimism, Political

"Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

4 Copy quote

Show source
The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

Carter G. Woodson

Opportunity, Order, Pay

Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree

11 Copy quote

Show source
I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.

Dorothy Day

Strong, Pride, Men

24 Copy quote
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it all...notes pour into the caste of freedom...the freedom to be intense...to defy social order and break the slow kill monotony of censorship. to break from the long bonds of servitude-ruthless adoration of the celestial shepherd. let us celebrate our own flesh-to embrace not ones race mais the marathon-to never let go of the fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

Letting Go, Sadness, Garden

4 Copy quote
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

Boyd K. Packer

Independent, Responsibility, Self

8 Copy quote
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but really only solidify their already dominant positions in society...but those who take some larger action that disrupts the social order. Who try to push through the doors that are usually closed to them. They do sometimes go crazy, these people, because the world is telling them not to want the things they want. It can seem saner to give up--but then one goes insane from giving up.

E. Lockhart

Giving Up, Crazy, Doors

4 Copy quote
Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

Michael Eric Dyson

Kindness, Order, Justice

"Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

88 Copy quote

Show source
As medium for reaching understanding, speech acts serve: a) to establish and renew interpersonal relations, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of legitimate social orders; b) to represent states and events, whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the world of existing states of affairs; c) to manifest experiences that is, to represent oneself- whereby the speaker takes up a relation to something in the subjective world to which he has privileged access.

Jurgen Habermas

Order, Understanding, Events

"The Theory of Communicative Action". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1987.

26 Copy quote

Show source
[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only on those relations. TRUTH! JUSTICE! Those are the immutable laws. Let us banish the dangerous maxim that it is sometimes useful to depart from them and to deceive or enslave mankind to assure its happiness.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Ignorance, Science, Errors

7 Copy quote
The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

Simone Weil

Order, Two, Humanity

Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

11 Copy quote

Show source
Modern science and technology can relieve men of the necessity for specialized, imbecile labor. They may, in principle, provide the basis for a rational social order based on free association and democratic control, if we have the will to create it.

Noam Chomsky

Technology, Men, Order

Noam Chomsky (2003). “For Reasons Of State”, p.404, Penguin Books India

12 Copy quote

Show source
To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

Dorothy Day

Children, Order, People

43 Copy quote
The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

Joseph Conrad

Order, Ink, Paper

Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Secret Agent”, p.46, Penguin

4 Copy quote

Show source
Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

Will Durant

Art, Men, Order

Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

13 Copy quote

Show source
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

Alexander Herzen

Night, Order, Long

25 Copy quote
ZEN is MEDITATION. ARCHY is Social Order. ZENARCHY is the Social Order which springs from Meditation. As a doctrine, it holds Universal Enlightenment a prerequisite to abolition of the State, after which a State will inevitably vanish. Or - that failing - nobody will give a damn.

Kerry Thornley

Spring, Government, Order

4 Copy quote
So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-'That's so 60's!'-the entire decade having been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and 'so last century,' just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets. No, rebellion won't pose a problem for this social order.

Laura Kipnis

Love Is, Vocabulary, Order

5 Copy quote
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.

Peter Drucker

Spiritual, Men, Order

"he End of Economic Man". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1939.

4 Copy quote

Show source
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

Victor Hugo

Depression, Struggle, Blow

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

8 Copy quote

Show source