Social Organization Quotes

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

  A. A. Milne

  Life, Cute, Science

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Any consideration of the life and larger social existence of the modern corporate man begins and also largely ends with the effect of one all-embracing force. That is organization - the highly structured assemblage of men, and now some women, of which he is a part. It is to this, at the expense of family, friends, sex, recreation and sometimes health and effective control of alcoholic intake, that he is expected to devote his energies.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sex, Men, Organization

  "Corporate Man". The New York Times, January 22, 1984.

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• One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.

  Aldous Huxley

  Character, Home, Men

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• What kind of society isn't structured on greed?

  Milton Friedman

  Greed, Kind, Capitalist

  Milton Friedman (1975). “An Economist's Protest”

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• The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Organization, Greed

  Milton Friedman (1968). “Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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• Social organizations are flagrantly open systems in that the input of energies and the conversion of output into further energetic input consists of transactions between the organization and its environment.

  Daniel Katz

  Organization, Energy, Input

  Daniel Katz, Robert L. Kahn (1978). “The Social Psychology of Organizations”, Wiley

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• Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Men, Organization, Giving

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could cooperate with other groups as they saw fit. But all cooperation would be on a voluntary basis. As the French anarchist Proudhon said. “Liberty [is] not the daughter but the Mother of Order.

  Karl Hess

  Daughter, Mother, Order

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• Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

  Riane Eisler

  Organization, Support, Social

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• Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

  Georges Sorel

  Country, Peace, Hate

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• The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

  Earl Browder

  Organization, Political, Development

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• Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

  Ann Druyan

  Moving, Organization, People

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• I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

  Fred Reed

  Thinking, Organization, May

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• Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Organization, Levels

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• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

  E. O. Wilson

  Organization, Earth, Next

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• everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.

  Carroll Quigley

  Organization, Effort, Important

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The instrument of expansion of Classical civilization was a social organization, slavery.

  Carroll Quigley

  Civilization, Organization, Expansion

  "The Evolution of Civilizations". Book by Carroll Quigley, Second Edition 1979, Chapter 9, Classical Civilization, p. 270, 1961.

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• Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

  Colin Ward

  Organization, Simplicity, Anarchy

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• Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.

  William Julius Wilson

  Work, Organization, Levels

  "When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor". Book by William Julius Wilson, 1996.

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• The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

  Herbert Croly

  Equality, Civilization, Organization

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has placed them in, and that the most abstract form of democratic theory would be practicable among sages guided only by their reason. The only problem is to what degree it is possible to excite or to contain the passions without endangering public happiness.

  Madame de Stael

  Women, Passion, Fate

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• Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the rise and decay of social organizations, is the result of the analytical work undertaken by Marx and by those whom he inspired.

  Paul A. Baran

  Organization, Decay, Development

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.5, NYU Press

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• Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

  Carl F. H. Henry

  Christian, Religious, Organization

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• What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Organization, Community, Isms

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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