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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons. ↗

— Abu Bakr

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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#countless #cumulative #develop #efforts #even

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy! ↗

— David Baldacci

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The paradox of education is precisely this; that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ↗

— James Baldwin

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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#center #commitment #continuity #cross #example

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism. ↗

— King Abdullah II

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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West. ↗

— King Abdullah II

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