"Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be."
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"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
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"The right to development is the measure of the respect of all other human rights.That should be our aim: a situation in which all individuals are enabled to maximize their potential, and to contribute to the evolution of society as a whole."
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"The happiness of any society begins with the well being of the families that live in it."
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"The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally."
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"A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself."
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"The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us."
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"Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface"
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"Society is a hospital of incurables."
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"Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons."
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"It is an unfinished society that we offer the world-a society that is forever committed to change, to improvement and to growth, that will never stagnate in the certitude of ideology or the finalities of dogma."
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"Man can be chained, but he cannot be domesticated."
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"Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there."
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"Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden."
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"Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does."
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"One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community."
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"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
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"Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough."
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"The form of government which communicates ease, comfort, security, or, in one word, happiness, to the greatest number of persons, and in the greatest degree, is the best."
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"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world."
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