“Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.”
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter 8, p. 232
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Canadian literary critic and literary theorist 1912–1991Related quotes
“Under the warm breath of religious faith all social institutions become plastic.”
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Introduction, p.xii
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 135.
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
Rothenberg and Antin interview (1958)
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter II, Section 10, pg. 58
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) United States Baptist theologian
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.2 The Social Aims of Jesus, p. 48-49
“Go where he will, the wise man is at home,
His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“A man's jealousy is a social institution, a woman's prostitution an instinct.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
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Alexis De Tocqueville (1805–1859) French political thinker and historian
Journeys to England and Ireland (1835).
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