Social Structure Quotes

• What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the bourgeoisie and the lowbrows are hoi polloi.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Bourgeoisie, Social

  Russell Lynes (1966). “Confessions of a dilettante”

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• A commitment to love and justice demands the transformation of social structures as well as of hearts.

  Mary E. Hunt

  Heart, Commitment, Justice

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• Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.

  Michael Crichton

  Children, Important, Tools

  Michael Crichton (1996). “The lost world”

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• As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Needs, Our Actions

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• Our body is simply a social structure made of many souls.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Soul, Body, Social

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• As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

  Gustav Stresemann

  War, Thinking, Order

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• The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

  Howard Zinn

  Fear, Weapons, Economy

  Howard Zinn (2013). “A Power Governments Cannot Suppress”, p.26, City Lights Books

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• The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  People, Phrases, World

  "The Crisis of the Tax State" (1918)

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• I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.

  Kenzo Tange

  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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• Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Husband, People

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• The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

  Herbert Spencer

  Politics, Politician, Social

  Herbert Spencer (1894). “The Man Versus the State: Containing "The New Toryism," "The Coming Slavery," "The Sins of Legislators" and "The Great Political Superstition”

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• There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say “We’re going to move.” Then she moves off and everybody just follows.

  Patricia Wright

  Moving, Leader, Littles

  "Interview: “Island Of Lemurs” Filmmakers". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. April 5, 2014.

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• All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

  O. Henry

  Liars, Fall, Hypocrite

  O. Henry (1953). “The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]”

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• But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the shape of organizations, be they companies, nations, or social structures.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Cities, Organization, Car

  "Negroponte" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. October 1, 1997.

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• When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises.

  Oscar Romero

  Giving, Church, Misery

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• The belief, not only of the socialist but of those so-called liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them is that by due skill an ill working humanity may be framed into well-working initiations. It is delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in bad acting of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of laden instincts.

  Herbert Spencer

  Skills, Political, Humanity

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• I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.

  Jay Michaelson

  Nice, Boys, Thinking

  "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

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• There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

  Jo Brand

  Males, Female, Social

  "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2009.

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• What is a Person? is a clear and comprehensive reconsideration of the meaning of human personhood as the central core of social structures. With breadth of intellect and balance of wisdom, Smith resets the frame of reflection for the most important discussions of the twenty-first century.

  William B. Hurlbut

  Reflection, Balance, Important

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• The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.

  Winston Churchill

  Brother, Husband, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Death, Country, Taken

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Notes from China”, p.3, Random House

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• Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Views, People

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.4, Humanix Books

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• My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most social scientists, even in that world, ignore that ugly reality. This is why my papers in mathematical sociology deal not with free choice among 30 flavors of ice-cream, but with social structure, social cohesion, and social marginality.

  Mario Bunge

  Reality, Ice, Roots

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.

  Anne Applebaum

  Christian, Party, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think [rock'n'roll] essence is what made it good and has a lot in common with what originally made monotheism good - it's against everything that is fixed, all the social structures that you can't go past.

  Ezra Furman

  Thinking, Past, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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