“I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.”
— David Miliband
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“Society therefore is an ancient as the world.”
— Voltaire
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“Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
— Jim Rohn
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“It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.”
— William Hague
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“All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.”
— Joseph Lancaster
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“The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.”
— Salman Rushdie
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“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”
— Elie Wiesel
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“Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.”
— Jonathan Sacks
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“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
— Vladimir Lenin
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“The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.”
— Ai Weiwei
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