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“We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small minority, perpetually beleaguered in a few walled towns. Now and then the horde of barbarians outside breaks through, and we have an armed effort to halt the process. That is, we have a Reformation, a French Revolution, a war for democracy, a Great Awakening. The minority is decimated and driven to cover. But a few survive- and a few are enough to carry on.”

“The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.”

Effort Society Caring Meaning Of Life Best Effort

Book:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

Source: Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life

“everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vested-interest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.”

Important Purpose Social Interest Effort Society Achieve Concerned Organization Institutions Experts Vested Interests Social Organization

Book:The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

Source: The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.”

Ifs Needs Real Character Effort Quality Society Balls Addresses Nerves This Society Real Character

Author:Jerry Garcia

“Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.”

Ifs Knows Men Want Kind Fall Individual Effort Power Failing Society Collectives Individualism Fulfilled Wholeness Fulfilment

Book:Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

Source: Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

“Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”

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Author:Vince Lombardi

“Poverty is not something people impose on themselves for want of effort and community organisation. It is constructed by divisive and discriminatory laws, inflexible organisations, acquisitive ideologies of wealth, a deeply rooted class system and policies which serve privilege in the short term and destroy society in the long term.”

People Want Long Law Term Community Wealth Effort Class Poverty Society Policy Privilege Ideology Long Term Rooted Short Term Organisation Ending Poverty Class System

Author:Pete Townshend

“In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.”

People Way Humans Mean Young Effort Cities Rights Society Youth Future Decided Raises Brave Human Rights Unemployed Countryside Torches This Society

Author:Martin Almada

“To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.”

Source: The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony

“In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.”

Effort Society Mouths Gold Bones Teeth Affliction Filling Diseased

Author:Khalil Gibran