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“Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.”

Source: The Family: An Historical and Social Study

“What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?”

Made Social Understanding Steps Progress Appeals Lasting Reformation Every Step

Author:William Matthews

“Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.”

Social Fire Sky Genius Laughter Smoke Shakes Lasting Passing Away Straws Momentary

Book:The Psychology of Laughter

Source: The Psychology of Laughter

“Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.”

Reality Social Lasting Social Change

Book:Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

Source: Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

“Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.”

Years Children States Past Social Goal Change Childhood Special Changed Periods Demand Adults Importance Ill Eras Lasting Temporary Conception Protected Adulthood Over The Past Unreasonable

Author:Sandra Scarr

“Corporations wield enormous power in society.In order to see lasting social change, leaders in the private sector must begin to think of their own business plans as plans for good as well as profit. That's not such a big leap.”

Thinking Wells Bigs Order Social Leader Plans Profit Enormous Corporations Lasting Leap Social Change Private Sector Own Business Business Plan

Author:Darren Walker