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“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.”

Social Space Cities Policy Healthy Safe Function Aim Democratic Meetings Urges Architect Sustainability Urban Urgent Lively Integrated Democratic Society Planners

Book:Cities for People

Source: Cities for People

“Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow men the most valuable of the services he is able to perform.”

Men Able Individual Social Function Aim Fellows Competition Valuable Fellow Man Social Systems

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain the feelings; art seeks to define them by externalizing them, by giving them significant form. Morality has only one aim - the ideal good; art has quite another aim - the objective truth... art never changes.”

“Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.”

“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

“Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.”

“Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life.”

Needs Values Given Social Quality Groups Depends Habit Members Aim Social Life Socialization

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that the social, or altruistic, impulses are the real source of morality, and that an ethic based on these impulses has far more claim on our allegiance than an ethic based on obedience to the commands of a God who created tapeworms and cancer-cells.”

Real Social Views Atheism Source Morality Ethics Claims Aim Cancer Positive Atheism Command Chiefs Cells Obedience Impulse Length Combat Allegiance Sanctions

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“The coarsest father gains a new impulse to labor from the moment of his baby's birth; he scarcely sees it when awake, and yet it is with him all the time. Every stroke he strikes is for his child. New social aims, new moral motives, come vaguely up to him.”

Children Moments Father Social Moral Baby Birth Gains Labor Aim Strikes Impulse Awake Motive Strokes

Book:Outdoor Studies, Poems

Source: Outdoor Studies, Poems

“My friends, do we realize for what purpose we are convened? Do we fully understand that we aim at nothing less than an entire subversion of the present order of society, a dissolution of the whole existing social compact?”

Whole Purpose Order Social Realizing My Friends Aim Womens Rights Dissolution Compact Subversion

Author:Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.”

Ends Law Religion Social Differences Fiction Aim Monstrosity

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“As the antagonism between those who possess, and those who do not, is becoming more acute day after day, we can already foresee a moment when it will bring about ("entraînera", Fr.) severe (big, high, intense, - "grands", Fr.) disasters, if we do turn (direct, aim, - "dirige", Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, - "dans des voies nouvelles", Fr.)”

Ifs Way Moments Bigs Turns Social Becoming Direct Aim Disaster Intense Severe Social Life Becoming More Antagonism New Directions

Author:African Spir

“To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.”

Mean Ends Government Social Goal Justice Technology Democracy Achieve Stronger Aim Social Justice Means To An End

Author:Beth Simone Noveck

“The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true foundation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.”

Source: The true remedy for the wrongs of woman: with a history of an enterprise having that for its object

“Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.”

Kind Values Social Divine Aim Structure Strive Come Up Myth Mythology Strife Social Structure

Author:Zsuzsanna Budapest