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“I think we left out one of the really important elements contributing to the dynamism of society, and that is the right to privacy. I mean something more than the right to shave in private. I mean the right to join what I want to join, to do what I want to do, or not to do what I might do without giving anyone a reason, either in advance or afterwards. That does not mean that I am seeking for irresponsibility socially.”

Thinking Want Giving Mean Doe Important Reason Might Left Rights Society Elements Seeking Privacy Contributing Left Out Irresponsibility Dynamism Right To Privacy

Author:Chester Barnard

“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”

Men Country Pleasure Company Society Ought Solitude Towns Seeking Sufficient Sensible This Society

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.”

Men Inspirational Light Change Virtue Fire Society Seeking Setting Settings Changing The World Improving Making Changes Theorists Moralist

Book:The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

Source: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

“The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually and personally.”

Individual Social Society Movement Evolution Mass Seeking Awakening Threshold

Book:Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

Source: Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential

“The Department of Peace would take a more human approach to healing our society, looking not merely for ways we can destroy an enemy, but for more powerful ways to create new friends. While the State Department engages in international diplomacy, there is no domestic parallel. There is no department seeking to harness the power of a nonviolent heart.”

Way Humans Heart States Powerful Healing Enemy Society Approach International Seeking Department Our Society Nonviolence Diplomacy Parallels Harness New Friends

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.”

Force Prayer Vision Society Movement Promise Hatred Seeking Ruins Revolutionary Meaningless Falsehood Pyramids Subversive Callousness Opportunism

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel