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“One reason I can be more tolerant than most is that as a therapist I have the advantage of information about my patients that most people are not privy to. And I discover that we rarely if ever see the totality of another in ordinary social intercourse. When an individual appears mean and lazy, we are only seeing one part of the person, elicited by a particular set of circumstances on a particular day, and we do well to wait a while before concluding that what we see is the whole person.”

“With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.”

Ifs Social Opinion Taken Paper Advantage Roots Regard Aim Corruption Wide Improvement Excess Desirable Banking Public Opinion Emissions Transactions Suppression Too Deep Partiality

Author:James Madison

“I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.”

Social Advantage Cease Impressed Scarce

Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes

“Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.”

Social Interest Acting Advantage Aspect Devices Aspects Of Life Quintessential

Author:Marlon Brando

“The State always moves slowly and grudgingly towards any purpose that accrues to society's advantage, but moves rapidly and with alacrity towards one that accrues to its own advantage; nor does it ever move towards social purposes on its own initiative, but only under heavy pressure, while its motion towards anti-social purposes is self-sprung.”

Doe Self States Moving Purpose Social Advantage Pressure Heavy Initiative Sprung Anti Social Alacrity

Author:Albert J. Nock

“The concept of justice I take to be defined, then, by the role of its principles in assigning rights and duties and in defining the appropriate division of social advantages. A conception of justice is an interpretation of this role.”

Social Justice Principles Roles Rights Duty Concepts Advantage Defined Appropriate Interpretation Division Conception Defining Rights And Duties

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“In many societies the domestic social costs of adjustment to changing patterns of comparative advantage are believed to outweigh the advantages of further trade liberalization.”

Social Cost Advantage Trade Patterns Adjustment Comparative Advantage

Book:The Political Economy of International Relations

Source: The Political Economy of International Relations

“But the paradox is here: when cultivated people do stay away from a certain portion of the population, when all social advantages are persistently withheld, it may be for years, the result itself is pointed to as a reason and is used as an argument for the continued withholding.”

People Years May Reason Used Certain Social Results Advantage Argument Population Discrimination Paradox Portions Withholding

Book:Twenty Years at Hull House

Source: Twenty Years at Hull House

“When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order.”

Believe Wells Long Matter Order Social Position Advantage No Matter What Injustice Reasonable Social Order

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call "civilization" rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of. It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess.”

“There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.”

Ifs Way Reason Care Social Roles Our Lives Understood Advantage Fundamentals Our Society Social Network

Author:Nicholas A. Christakis

“High buildings have no genuine advantages, except in speculative gains for banks and land owners. They are not cheaper, they do not help create open space, they destroy the townscape, they destroy social life, they promote crime, they make life difficult for children, they are expensive to maintain, they wreck the open spaces near them, and they damage light and air and view.”

Source: A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction