Social Order Quotes

“You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.”
― Jacques Ellul

“It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world.”
― Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“History teaches us that all ruling elites try to portray themselves as the natural and durable social order, even ones that are in serious crisis, that threaten to devour their environmental base in order to continually recreate their hierarchical structure of power and privilege. And all ruling elites are scornful and intolerant of alternative viewpoints.”
― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.”
― David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

“[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, Exposition du système du monde

“Do you think to make man good by enacting more laws?”
― Hock G. Tjoa, Agamemnon Must Die

“What did the torturers of the Inquisition want? The admission of evil, of the principle of evil. It was necessary to make the accused say that he was not guilty except by accident, through the incidence of the principle of Evil in the divine order. Thus confession restored a reassuring causality, and torture, and the extermination of evil through torture, were nothing but the triumphal coronation (neither sadistic nor expiatory) of the fact of having produced Evil as cause. Otherwise, the least heresy would have rendered all of divine creation suspect.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

“You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to be as natural as the air we breathe, and can be seen instead as the historically rather recent phenomenon that it is. Moreover, whatever was born can always die, which is why social systems like to present themselves as immortal. Rather as a bout of dengue fever makes you newly aware of your body, so a form of social life can be perceived for what it is when it begins to break down.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“Alienation, the 'commodification' of social life, a culture of greed, aggression, mindless hedonism and growing nihilism, the steady hemorrhage of meaning and value from human existence: it is hard to find an intelligent discussion of these questions that is not seriously indebted to the Marxist tradition.”
― Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

“...justice cannot live in a society which tolerates economic inequality and exploitation.”
― Isiah Berlin

“The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple...."
"Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memories of Ubertino, which transform into theological decisions the summons of the simple to poverty." I said.
"Yes, but as you have seen, this happens too late, and when it happens, the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful, more useful for the Emperor Louis than for a Friar of the Poor Life.”
― Umberto Eco

“History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way.”
― Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes

“أي أحمق بإستطاعته أن يكون سعيدا بدون هموم الدنيا, ولكن القوة النفسية التي تعطي السعادة الحقيقية,هي حين تسطيع ان تتملك الأشياء التي تبكيك وتحزنك وتسيطر على تأثيرها على حياتك....”
― Husam Wafaei, Honourable Defection

“There are four things that an aristocrat should contribute to the modern world to countervail its ideological tendencies: the rejection of historical inevitability; the defense of the ethics of obligations; an acceptance of the body/soul dualism with the soul taking the dominant position; and a classical concept of shame. All of them are interrelated.”
― Ryszard Legutko, The Cunning of Freedom: Saving the Self in an Age of False Idols

“Society cannot exist if the majority is not ready to hinder, by the application or threat of violent action, minorities from destroying the social order.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics