Quotes for All
I understand by socialism a society in which the aim of production is not profit, but the use. In which the individual citizen participates responsibly in his work, and in the whole social organization, and in which he is not a means who is employed by capital. Erich Fromm
Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and without the pressure of poverty: a new social organism which will make an end to the terrible struggle for the means of existence, –the savage struggle which undermines the finest qualities in man, and ever widens the social abyss. In short, Anarchism … Read more
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily infringed upon. We must therefore call crime necessary and declare that it cannot be non-existent, that the fundamental conditions of social organization, as they are understood, logically imply it. … Read more
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
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. E. O. Wilson
I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest. Fred Reed
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
Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world’s goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human species and bears witness against the social organization far more than does crime. Flora Tristan
What’s happening with the planet’s climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate. Dmitry Medvedev
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