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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. ↗

— Charles Rangel

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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. ↗

— Herbert Read

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A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. ↗

— Herbert Read

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