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“Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system.”

Wells Law Social Change Progress Well Being Organisms Preservation Cautious Social Systems Progress And Change

Book:Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

Source: Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India

“Business has a way of talking about how to create value, which is in some way isn't bad... We just need to start thinking about if the value we want to create is consistent with all social and environmental well being.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Needs Wells Values Social Talking Environmental Well Being Consistent Way Of Talking

Author:Peter Senge

“I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington.”

Believe Wells Motivational I Believe Social Money Business Society Charity Investment Investing Profit Finance Well Being More Money Philanthropy Beneficial Non Profit

Author:Charles Koch

“Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.”

Wells Long Doe Important Facts Faces Social Term Challenges Support Clear Security Citizens Program Well Being Long Term Stability Senior Social Security Crystals Cornerstones Senior Citizen

Author:Bill Frist

“Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum tolerable well being.”

Wells Law Social Levels Innovation Well Being Minimum Tolerable Social Innovation

Author:Paul Dickson

“Everyone pretends to be 'free thinkers', but few individuals pass the line into expressive territories that may be detrimental to their own social well-being.”

Wells May Individual Social Lines Well Being Territory Thinker Expressive Detrimental Free Thinkers

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual observer can correlate a child's social origin with its physical well-being.”

Wells Children Social Childhood Well Being Preacher Tolerate Observers Casual Sanctity Savants

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“It is the historic glory of the intellectual class of the West in modern times that, of all the classes which could be called in any sense privileged, it has shown the largest and most consistent concern for the well-being of the classes which lie below it in the social scale.”

Wells Lying Social Class Modern Intellectual Glory Concern West Scales Well Being Consistent Privileged Historic Modern Times

Book:Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Source: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.”

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of civilization and material well-being. All civilizations have up to now been based on private property. Only nations committed to the principle of private property have risen above penury and produced science, art, and literature. There is no experience to show that any other social system could provide mankind with any of the achievements of civilization.”

“Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth, purity, kindness. It humbles the proud, exalts the lowly, upholds law, favors liberty, is essential to it, and would unite men in one great brotherhood. It is the breath of life to social and civil well-being here, and spreads the azure of that heaven into whose unfathomed depths the eye if faith loves to look.”

“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”