#soc

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#apply #contemporary #contemporary society #developed #discuss

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#critical #even #happily #i #i am

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ↗

— John Madden

#being #champion #else #only #our

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. ↗

— James Madison

#acquired #gives #natural #natural right #personal

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#fear #feel #go #i #like

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#classes #difficult #egypt #like #must

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. ↗

— John Major

#beginning #between #cared #changes #did

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all. ↗

— John Malkovich

#danger #i #i think #me #people

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#always #because #corpus #facts #including

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#countries #democracy #industrial #limited #luxury