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“No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of his master as the child is of his parent ... Never were the rights of man ever so disregarded as in the case of the child.”
“No social stability without individual stability.”
Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.”
“No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.”
Source: Churchill: The Power of Words
“No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.”
Source: How the Mind Works
“No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.”
“No society can exist if respect for the law does not to some extent prevail; but the surest way to have the laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality are in contradiction, the citizen finds himself in the cruel dilemma of either losing his moral sense or of losing respect for the law, two evils of which one is as great as the other, and between which it is difficult to choose.”
“No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.”
Source: The Future of Industrial Man
“No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.”
Source: In Place of Fear
“No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.”
Source: The Ecology of Human Development
“No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.”
“No society can prosper where justice is delayed, dignity denied, and voices silenced. To protect rights is to protect humanity itself. A nation that neglects justice digs its own grave.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which by far the greater part of the numbers are poor and miserable.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“No society can survive if it allows its members to behave toward one another in the same way in which it encourages them to behave as a group toward other groups; internal cooperation is the first law of external competition. The struggle for existence is not ended by mutual aid, it is incorporated, or transferred to the group. Other things equal, the ability to compete with rival groups will be proportionate to the ability of the individual members and families to combine with one another.
Hence every society inculcates a moral code, and builds up in the heart of the individual, as its secret allies and aides, social dispositions that mitigate the natural war of life; it encourages by calling them virtues those qualities or habits in the individual which redound to the advantage of the group, and discourages contrary qualities by calling them vices.
In this way the individual is in some outward measure socialized, and the animal becomes a citizen.”
“No society can sustain unlimited growth - none ever has. History demonstrates that expectations of infinite growth lead to collapse. Unfortunately, millennia of evidence also indicates that needed attempts to stabilize such societies run counter to the expectations of the populace and of interest groups. For that reason, such attempts at stabilization frequently fail.”
“No society can thrive when half its people are left behind.”
“No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.”
“No society could advance if everyone was smaller than his place.”
Source: Reference
“No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.”
Source: The affluent society
“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.”
Source: The Thomas Sowell Reader
“No society has any right to forget its workers, because they are the real heroes of the society!”
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”
“No society has ever been found in the history of our species where women have occupied a disproportionate number of elite political positions.”
Source: Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us
“No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.”
“No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation... We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have... We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.”
“No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.”
“No society has gone the way of gulags or concentration camps by following the path of Spinoza and Einstein and Jefferson and Thomas Paine”
“No society is advanced till no one is marginal.”
Source: Sonnets From The Mountaintop
“No society is born humane. It has to be made humane.”
Source: Time to End Democracy: The Meritocratic Manifesto
“No society is born humane, it must be made humane.”
Source: When Call The People: My World My Responsibility
“No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.”
“No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.”
“No society is perfectly equal. So the risk of coercion always hovers over the choices people make in the labor market.”
Source: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
“No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.”
Source: The Quotable Jefferson
“No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced”
“No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.”
“No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.”
Source: Gravity Dreams
“No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.”
“No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“No solamente usted no conoce al pueblo, sino que siente el desprecio más abominable por él, porque el pueblo para usted es únicamente el pueblo francés e incluso solo los parisienses, y le vergüenza que el pueblo ruso no se parezca a ellos. Esa es la única verdad. Y para aquel para el que no existe el pueblo no existe Dios. Sepa que todos aquellos que dejan de comprender al pueblo y que no tienen contacto con el pierden al mismo tiempo la fe de sus padres y se convierten en ateos o en indiferentes”
“No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.”
“No soldier ever really survives a war.”
“No soldier outlives a thousand chances.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
“No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.”
Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel
“No solid background can shake in this way
I have been swallowed by the cracks.”