"The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society."
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"No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best."
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"A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded."
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"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without."
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"Work is the province of cattle."
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"The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages."
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"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society."
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"Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death"
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"The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom."
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"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."
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"It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public."
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"The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours."
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"Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not."
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"It is our first duty to serve society."
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"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."
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"The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay."
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"Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free."
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"The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent."
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"He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays."
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"I hold every man a debtor to his profession."
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