Social Systems Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Thinking, Long

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• The French debt will remain massive. Savings should be made with cuts to the generous social system, which grants illegal immigrants the same protections as it does our citizens.

  Marine Le Pen

  Cutting, Doe, Citizens

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Hope, Economic Models

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• This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Past

  "Conversations with Stalin". Book by Milovan Djilas, 1963.

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• The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

  James S. Coleman

  School, Boots, Rewards

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• We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Thanksgiving, America, People

  "In Giving Thanks, Some Remember the Indians" by Georgia Dullea, www.nytimes.com. November 24, 1988.

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• Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made it part of the public domain of scholarship can he truly lay claim to it as his own. For his claim resides only in the recognition accorded by peers in the social system of science through reference to his work.

  Robert K. Merton

  Science, Ideas, Peers

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• Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

  Mary Daly

  Change, Inspiring, Doe

  Mary Daly (2015). “Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation”, p.36, Beacon Press

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• The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Animal, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.33, Penguin

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• No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, People, Evil

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• 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.

  Li Peng

  Country, Light, People

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• We develop social systems for the handicapped, but when you're handicapped in your mind, society doesn't handle those situations well. I think we don't recognize or acknowledge the power of messages and how deeply affected we all are by the messages we receive from the media.

  Aloe Blacc

  Thinking, Media, Mind

  "Q+A: Socially conscious crooner Aloe Blacc brings a little heart and soul to the Cosmopolitan". Interview with Andrea Domanick, lasvegassun.com. July 26, 2012.

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• More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Moon, Land, Issues

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• I don't think that the contradictions between capitalism and socialism can be resolved by war. This is no longer the age of the bow and arrow. It's the nuclear age, and war can annihilate us all. The only way to achieve solutions seems to be for the different social systems to coexist.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Thinking, Arrows

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• While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they were due to fill the places that had been waiting for them from the day they were born, it was, at the same time, opening its doors to a more cosmopolitan student population and beginning to take the first tentative steps toward mitigating the evils of a pyramidal social system that concentrated all its social honors upon the rich and the wellborn.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Son, Doors, Class

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• Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Running, Heaven, Essentials

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Individual, Social, Structure

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.113, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization and order can only come from centralism.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Top Down, Self, Order

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• Every social system is more or less against nature, and at every moment nature is at work to reclaim her rights.

  Paul Valery

  Rights, Society, Moments

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• Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Community, Action, Social

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• We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  War, Ideas, Years

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• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change, Law, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Now culture being a social product, I firmly believe that any work of art should have a social function to beautify, to glorify, to dignify man... Since any social system is forced to change to another by concrete economic forces, its art changes also to be recharged, reshaped, and revitalized by the new conditions... The making of a genuine artist or writer is not mysterious. It is not
  the work of Divine Providence. Social conditions, history, and the people's struggle are the factors behind it.

  Carlos Bulosan

  Art, Believe, Struggle

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• I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

  John Elkington

  Thinking, Social, Consumerism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving, or that the survival of the societies we know depends upon filling a simple set of prescriptions. It is all too complex and dynamic, whether it involves managing greenhouse gases or Nile snails... The future condition of the globe's interlocking natural and social systems depends more on human behavior than on the further investigation of natural processes, however desirable that may be.

  Gilbert F. White

  Simple, Survival, Environmental

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