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“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

“But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.”

Men Humans Important Form Political Social Interest Human Beings Animal Relation Fellows Absorbing Political Animals

Author:Logan Pearsall Smith

“As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood.”

Men Feelings Age Asks Social Term Quality Genius Equal Fellows Acknowledge Generous Thrown Brotherhood Gifted Fellow Man Proverbial Fellow Feeling

Book:Mosses from an Old Manse

Source: Mosses from an Old Manse

“The law-abiding citizen by his labor serves both himself and his fellow man and thereby integrates himself peacefully into the social order. The robber, on the other hand, is intent, not on honest toil, but on the forcible appropriation of the fruits of others' labor.”

Men Hands Law Order Social Honest Citizens Labor Fellows Fruit Toil Fellow Man Abiding Integrating Robbers Social Order Appropriation Law Abiding Citizen

Book:Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

Source: Liberalism: The Classical Tradition: The Economist

“The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding and social peace.”

Ifs Men Persons Whole Individual Social Understanding Capable Capacity Fellows Institutions Foundation Stability Fellow Man Capacity To Love

Book:Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

Source: Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures, Harvard University

“Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our differences. If we see each other just as fellow human beings, there'll be no basis for fighting or conflict between us.”

“I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term "social justice.”

Men Feels Stills I Can Would Be Social Term Justice Fellows Social Justice Ashamed Speakers Fellow Man

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society - communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.”

Men Giving Doe Form Evil Social Birth Eternal Approach Fellows Injustice Inequality Communism Exploitation Traveler Social Injustice Fellow Travelers

Author:Alexander Zinoviev

“Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.”

Social Prayer Minutes Ready Fellows Ill Fifteen Washing Not Ready Unprepared Start The Day

Author:Muriel Lester

“To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.”

Men Humans States Dream Reality Social Human Beings Fellows Obligation Your Dreams Tension Appetite Fellow Man

Author:John Updike

“Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.”

Way Needs Real Soul Body Social Clothes Fellows Various Flesh Brown Shade Yellow Clothings Layers Leafs Embarrassment Leather Shyness Exterior Figs

Book:The Book of Strange New Things

Source: The Book of Strange New Things

“If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.”

Ifs Giving Kind Littles Social Attention Creatures Give Me Fellows Faults Genuine Manners Endeavor Temper Defects Philanthropist Erring

Book:The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

Source: The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan

“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.”