“ In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ Stewart Udall, more than any other single person, was responsible for reviving the national commitment to conservation and environmental preservation. ”
- Bruce Babbitt- Copy
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“ The principal purpose of politics is the evolution and maintenance of a securely established ruling class with a justified sense of its own honourable superiority. ”
- Peregrine Worsthorne- Copy
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“ Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. ”
- Robert A. Taft- Copy
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“ We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people. ”
- George Lincoln Rockwell- Copy
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“ We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. ”
- Virginia Satir- Copy
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“ Politics the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. ”
- Barry Goldwater- Copy
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“ The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices. ”
- Richard Cobden- Copy
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“ Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential. ”
- Willard Gaylin- Copy
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“ For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion. ”
- Thomas Moore- Copy
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“ Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut- Copy
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“ It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion… . Civilisation is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilisation, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals… ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
- 430
“ The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. ”
- Maurice Godelier- Copy
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“ No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order. ”
- Thomas Szasz- Copy
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