"When a society is organized around that which is fitting in each realm, then peace, the fruit of justice, can flourish."
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"The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem."
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"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
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"The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally."
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"A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged."
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"In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide."
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"Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding."
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"The greatest step forward in human evolution was made when society began to help the weak and the poor, instead of oppressing and despising them."
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"Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish."
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"The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently."
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"The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable."
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"Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead."
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"Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies."
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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
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"We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life's highway. But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished."
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"The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal."
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"When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities."
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"To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign."
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"An armed society is a polite society."
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"If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for."
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