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Because capitalist society has expanded the productive forces so enormously, the social conditions under which it arose lag behind and become fetters holding back the further growth of productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

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War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition. ↗

— Elihu Root

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The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production. ↗

— Earl Browder

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Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. ↗

— James Connolly

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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. ↗

— Johann Most

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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation. ↗

— Jerry Greenfield

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It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities. ↗

— Rudolf Hiferding

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No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

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The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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