For if you do, then shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg - isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning.
Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
When it comes to having conversations with girls what I hear from them is that there is a lot of pressure to look a certain way, act a certain way, perform a certain way, and there are very mixed messages. We are telling them, ‘Be yourself, be true to who you are,' but what does that mean in a society of comparison, competition, and individualism?
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in society... Maintaining this denial of reality takes tremendous emotional and psychic energy.
The role of inequity in society is grossly underestimated. Inequity is not good for your health, basically.
The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.
In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
Drama aids self-discovery like nothing else. In removing it from our schools, we remove the inestimable benefits of it from our society. No amount of studying oxbow lakes was ever going to help me emotionally through the death of my father.
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and business interact.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
