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“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.”

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“Empathy and fellow feeling form the very basis of morality. The capacities for empathy, for feeling responsibility toward others and for reaching out to help them can be stunted or undermined early on, depending on a child's experiences in the home and neighborhood. It becomes too easy to turn our backs on fellow human beings... to have 'compassion fatigue.' Technology, we are learning, is not neutral.”

“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”

Source: The Words of Albert Schweitzer

“By peace we mean the capacity to transform conflicts with empathy, without violence, and creatively- a never-ending process”

Inspirational Mean War Peace Process Compassion Violence Society Conflict Empathy Capacity Sympathy Anti War Mathematician Never Ending

Author:Johan Galtung

“Democracy is not just a question of having a vote. It consists of strengthening each citizen's possibility and capacity to participate in the deliberations involved in life in society.”

Democracy Society Possibility Citizens Involved Capacity Vote Teamwork Collaboration Strengthening Deliberation

Author:Fernando Henrique Cardoso

“The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.”

Source: Democracy And Education

“Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.”

Society Benefits Capacity Helping Others Volunteer

Author:Kathleen Turner

“I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.”

Justice Poor Poverty Society Capacity Democratic Humane Democratic Society Ending Poverty

Author:Ruth Manorama

“Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.”

People Ifs America Force Nations Liberty Wonder Society Century Approach Capacity Innovation 21st Century Alas Adaptation Renewal Inevitability Rejuvenation

Author:John Chancellor

“The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.”

Men Society Capacity Our Society Paradox

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.”

Humans Individual Human Beings Society Unique Capacity Evolve Openness Shouting Unique Individuals

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“The good society was, like the good self, a diverse yet harmonious, growing yet unified whole, a fully participatory democracy in which the powers and capacities of the individuals that comprised it were harmonized by their cooperative activities into a community that permitted the full and free expression of individuality.”

Self Whole Individual Community Democracy Growing Society Expression Activity Capacity Individuality Diverse Harmonious Unified Cooperatives Free Expression Participatory Democracy

Author:John Dewey

“I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious. I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect. I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society. I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run. I believe in the reality of progress. I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.”

Source: The Artist: A Drama Without Words