Sir Henry Sumner Maine, a hundred years before Communism was a force to be reckoned with, wrote his brilliant legal generalization, that `` the progress of society is from status to contract ''.

He wrote: `` ( P. 211 ) the anti-trust laws were the answer of a society which unconsciously felt the need of great organizations, and at the same time had to deny them a place in the moral and logical ideology of the social structure.

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

Carnegie wrote " The Gospel of Wealth ", an article in which he stated his belief that the rich should use their wealth to help enrich society.

In 1997 Hill published her autobiography, Speaking Truth to Power, in which she chronicled her role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation controversy and wrote that creating a better society had been a motivating force in her life.

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

His PI, Dan Fortune, was consistently involved in the same sort of David-and-Goliath stories that Hammett, Chandler, and Macdonald wrote, but Collins took a sociological bent, exploring the meaning of his characters ' places in society and the impact society had on people.

On February 17, 1835, after the committee had selected the book's contents, the committee wrote that the resulting work represents " our belief, and when we say this, humbly trust, the faith and principles of this society as a body.

The English Rosicrucian society, founded in 1867 by Robert Wentworth Little, claimed Bulwer-Lytton as their ' Grand Patron ', but he wrote to the society complaining that he was ' extremely surprised ' by their use of the title, as he had ' never sanctioned such '.

He wrote, " There is no reason why, in a society which has reached the general level of wealth ours has, the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom ; that is: some minimum of food, shelter and clothing, sufficient to preserve health.

From quite early in his career, he sought a better way to organise society, and wrote a number of Utopian novels.

Not all his scientific romances ended in a happy Utopia, and in fact, Wells also wrote a dystopian novel, When the Sleeper Wakes ( 1899, rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, 1910 ), which pictures a future society where the classes have become more and more separated, leading to a revolt of the masses against the rulers.

Friedrich Engels wrote: " I use ' historical materialism ' to designate the view of the course of history, which seeks the ultimate causes and the great moving power of all important historic events in the economic development of society, in the changes in the modes of production and exchange, with the consequent division of society into distinct classes and the struggles of these classes.

Home wrote much about the importance of property to society.

After receiving angry letters to the magazine, Hefner wrote a response to criticism where he said, " If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.

He wrote that " the historical trend of our age is the fatal crisis which capitalist production has undergone in the European and American countries where it has reached its highest peak, a crisis that will end in its destruction, in the return of modern society to a higher form of the most archaic type — collective production and appropriation ".

As he wrote in his " Critique of the Gotha Program ", " between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other.

He wrote approvingly of the ideals of democracy and humanitarianism, and his expectation that these values would come to permeate Japanese society.

In 1875 Masoch wrote The Ideals of Our Time, an attempt to give a portrait of German society during its Gründerzeit period.

In May 1926, after Mitchell had left her job at the Atlanta Journal and was recovering at home from her ankle injury, she wrote a society column for the Sunday Magazine, " Elizabeth Bennet's Gossip ", which she continued to write until August.

" To this end " ( to achieve the previously specified goal ), he wrote, " it is that men give up all their natural power to the society they enter into, and the community put the legislative power into such hands as they think fit, with this trust, that they shall be governed by declared laws, or else their peace, quiet, and property will still be at the same uncertainty as it was in the state of nature.

In philosophy, he wrote on aesthetics, ethics, government, metaphysics, politics, economics, psychology, rhetoric and theology.

In a paper written in 2008, Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote of appropriate government responses to conspiracy theories.

In 1920, while mayor, he wrote his first book, The Social Worker, which set out many of the principles that informed his political philosophy and that were to underpin the actions of his government in later years.

During the course of the second Labour government, Attlee had become increasingly disillusioned by Ramsay MacDonald, whom he came to regard as vain and incompetent, and later wrote scathingly of him in his autobiography.

In 1787, James Madison wrote Thomas Jefferson in France for background information on constitutional government to use at the Constitutional Convention.

Carol Thatcher wrote in her book Below the Parapet that her parents, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis used to joke that CHOGM stood for " Coons holidaying on government money ".

Referring to the resolution, Lumumba wrote to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld, ‘ From these texts it is clear that, contrary to your personal interpretation, the UN force may be used to subdue the rebel government of Katanga .’ Secretary General Hammarskjöld refused.

In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”

Economist Murray Rothbard wrote that " Bastiat was indeed a lucid and superb writer, whose brilliant and witty essays and fables to this day are remarkable and devastating demolitions of protectionism and of all forms of government subsidy and control.

On anarchism, Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier: " I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and the people can be trusted to behave decently if you will only let them alone.

Godwin opposes the idea of government, but wrote that a minimal state as a present " necessary evil " that would become increasingly irrelevant and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge.

The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote praising " the idea of a polity administered with regard to equal rights and equal freedom of speech, and the idea of a kingly government which respects most of all the freedom of the governed ".

But Lippmann turned against what he called the " collectivism " of the Progressive movement he encouraged with its de-emphasis on the foundations of American politics and government and ultimately wrote a work, " The Public Philosophy " ( 1955 ), which came very close to a return to the principles of the American founders.

The government asserts it can detain American citizens " not because there is evidence that they have committed a crime, but merely because the government wishes to investigate them for possible wrongdoing ," wrote Judge Smith, an appointee of former President George W. Bush.

The British historian Victor Rothwell wrote that the newspapers that Ribbentrop used to provide his press summaries for Hitler, such as the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, were out of touch not only with British public opinion, but also with British government policy in regard to Poland.

Adenauer was imprisoned for two days after the Night of the Long Knives on the 30th June 1934, but already on the 10th of August 1934, maneuvering for his pension, he wrote a 10-page letter to Hermann Göring ( the Prussian interior minister ) stating among other things that as a mayor he had even violated Prussian laws in order to allow NSDAP events in public buildings and Nazi flags to be flown from city flagpoles, and added that in 1932 he had declared publicly that the Nazis should join the Reich government in a leading role.

Déjacque wrote that: ‘ By government I understand all delegation, all power outside the people ,’ for which must be substituted, in a process whereby politics is transcended, the ‘ people in direct possession of their sovereignty ,’ or the ‘ organised commune .’ For Déjacque, the communist anarchist utopia would fulfil the function of inciting each proletarian to explore his or her own human potentialities, in addition to correcting the ignorance of the proletarians concerning ‘ social science .’"

The newspaper also wrote that the German authorities were told about that Palestinians were planning an " incident " at the Olympics three weeks before the massacre, but failed to take the necessary security measures, and these facts are missing from the official documentation of the German government.

Mohists developed the sciences of fortification and statecraft, and wrote treatises on government, ranging in topic from efficient agricultural production to the laws of inheritance.

In addition, in 1758 the governor of South Carolina James Glen wrote: it has always been the policy of this government to create an aversion in them Indians to Negroes.

McVeigh wrote a letter to Moore in which he claimed that the robbery had been committed by government agents.

Ogburn wrote that the annuity was granted " under mysterious circumstances ", and Anderson suggests it was granted because of Oxford's writing patriotic plays for government propaganda.

" By means of religion ," d ' Alembert wrote, " the Jesuits established a monarchical authority in Paraguay, founded solely on their powers of persuasion and on their lenient methods of government.