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“The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.”

Needs Light Form Social Society Civilization Demand Individualism Inherent Constraints Eliminating

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.”

Inspirational Different Action Order Social Change Poor Poverty Society Demand Generous Changing The World Making A Difference Relief Theologian Making Changes Social Order

Author:Gustavo Gutiérrez

“Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.”

Should States Rights Society Conditions Position Demand Bases Fundamentals Democratic Privilege Contrary Inequality Consistent Democratic Rights

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”

“Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.”

Humans Littles Human Beings Practice Society Demand Anger

Author:George Orwell

“The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.”

Persons Made Courses Society Demand Skins Clothings Finest

Book:Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

Source: Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews

“But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.”

“A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.”

“The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.”

Use Earth Happiness Order Society Demand Members Labor Fruit Valuable Preparation Faculty Instruction Regulation Cultivation Subsistence

Author:Isaac Barrow

“Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.”

“Society is always engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new demands of each new generation.”

Generations Society Demand Preserves Engaged Expenses Conspiracy New Generation

Author:John Haynes Holmes

“Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organization and preaches free agreement - at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist. Only, instead of demanding that those social customs should be maintained through the authority of a few, it demands it from the continued action of all.”

“The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.”

Bits Society Demand Certainty Noses Yearning

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER