World Systems Theory

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

    Cleopatra: Was I right to avenge myself?... Caesar: If one man in all the world can be found, now or forever, to know that you did wrong, that man will have either to conquer the world as I have, or be crucified by it.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Our little systems have their day;
    They have their day and cease to be:
    They are but broken lights of thee,
    And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)