World Systems Theory

Famous quotes containing the words world, systems and/or theory:

    The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The theory of truth is a series of truisms.
    —J.L. (John Langshaw)