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  • Benazir Bhutto The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Noam Chomsky The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • H.G. Wells The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Serge Daney The personal appropriation of clichés is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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  • John Maynard Keynes The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
    The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Noam Chomsky The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Milton Friedman The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Arthur Hertzberg The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Bainbridge Colby The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • John Maynard Keynes The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Claude T. Bissell The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Alfred de Vigny The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Carroll Quigley The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Bernard Devoto The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
    Bernard Devoto
    American historian, essayist and teacher
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  • Abu Sa'id The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moments.
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