If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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As quoted in As I Journey On : Meditations for Those Facing Death (2000) by Sharon Dardis and Cindy RogersDag Hammarskjold
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The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that…. The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do.
Maxine Waters
The two party electoral system performs the essential function of helping to legitimate the existing social order.
Michael Parenti
[In order to define the distinction between a grant and an exchange transaction, Boulding has used the net worth criterion] If there is no decrease in the net worth of either party, the transaction is exchange; if there is, it contains some grant element and is an explicit or implicit grant.
Kenneth Boulding
No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.
Peter F. Drucker
Between 1920 and 1924 the Conservative party made three longterm decisions. The first was to remove Lloyd George from office. The second was to take up the rôle of 'defender of the social order'. The third was to make Labour the chief party of opposition.
Maurice Cowling
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