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“The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.”

Needs Fall Social President Doubt Sky Security Claims Broke No Doubt Social Security Mislead

Author:Grace Napolitano

“Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.”

“I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.”

Mind Humans Political Politics Social Religious Society Claims Injustice Human Mind Divided Human Society Social Service

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.”

Humans Lying Social Kindness Violence Human Nature Thousand Ten Ordinary Claims Response Bounds Stability Aggressive Usual Rooted Ignored Frequency Acts Of Kindness Spades Geniality

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.”

Evil Social Church Dangerous Divine Devil Accounts Claims Carrie License Mixtures

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.”

Individual Social Black Levels Claims Norm Autonomy Rationalism

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporate, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organised in their respective associations, circulate within the State.”

“The claims of existing social arrangements and of self interest have been duly allowed for. We cannot at the end count them a second time because we do not like the result.”

Has Beens Ends Self Social Interest Results Claims Arrangements Self Interest

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.”

Social Theory Circumstances Claims Doctrine Ideology Derivatives

Book:In Defence of Politics

Source: In Defence of Politics

“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.”

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Author:Margaret E. Knight

“Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”

Men Social Pay Accepting Groups Willing Benefits Claims Doctrine Dishonesty Pacifism Halos Social Groups

Book:Double Star

Source: Double Star

“The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.”

Mean Social Women Liberty Claims Corruption Womanhood Emancipation Sanctity

Book:A Woman at Thirty

Source: A Woman at Thirty

“Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound to do something outside her home to justify her claim to support.”

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Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture