Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members"
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Members
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Amartya Sen
Economist, Philosopher
"The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses."
Hans Frank
Politician, Lawyer
"In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag."
Queen Noor of Jordan
Queen consort, Philanthropist
"I had never imagined myself, nor aspired to be, a member of a royal family. I wanted to be in the Peace Corps, not a princess!"
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"Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family."
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"Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament."
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"I will not join any club who will take me as a member."
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"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all."
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"A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member."
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"The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned."
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"To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members."
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"Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation."
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"What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals."
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"No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true."
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"The members - mentally handicapped people who are marginal in society and not useful in an economic sense - welcomed me into their lives. And I was loved, not because of what s doing but because of who I was."
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"It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them."
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"Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own."
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"I would never wanna belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member."
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"Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?"
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"He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall."
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"When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body?"
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"The optimum committee has no members."
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