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• A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Struggle, Justice, Locks

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• But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

  Bill Moyers

  Differences, Justice, Democracy

  "The Great American Class War" by Bill Moyers, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2013.

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• Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of 'liquid' securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Community, Liquid, Doctrine

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.139, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

  William Browne

  Trying, Investing, Natural

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• Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.

  Charlie Munger

  Mean, People, Guy

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• I don't get intimidated. When I'm on set, I never really get intimidated by people. But in social situations, it's weird sometimes. You don't want to seem like you're kissing somebody's ass because they're a celebrity.

  Jeremy Luke

  Kissing, People, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't, or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.

  Todd Haynes

  Strong, Character, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think they're more temperamental people now. With social media we hear a lot more about it. The nastiness you get online, there were always mean girls - always - they didn't have such a big forum as they do now. Mean girls ought to get a life, I think.

  Jacki Weaver

  Mean Girls, Thinking, Media

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• I'm a very social person and I love being out in the world, and the feeling of not having that is the scariest thing to me.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Communication, Love Is, Scary

  Interview With Sarah Paulson, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

  Boy George

  London, Revolutionary, Punk

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Daughter, Guy, Helping

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• For the Christian there can be no social or political panaceas, no easy escapes from personal responsibility achieved by collectivising guilt or virtue. The true ends of temporal life lie beyond it, and, though the tyrannical State may diminish virtue, the benevolent State cannot procure it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Christian, Lying, Responsibility

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• Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

  J. G. Ballard

  Hands, Killing Others, Play

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• We live in this world of tweeting, and social media, and anti-social media, and all the rest, so no matter what you say, there is going to be what people say is a firestorm. I don't know what a firestorm is.

  Al Michaels

  Media, People, World

  "Al Michaels: Voice of the Super Bowl". Interview with Jenny Vrentas, www.si.com. January 23, 2015.

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• The biggest journalistic game-changer of our time has been the rise of social media and the overgrowth of faux news sources - league- and team-sponsored blogs, player tweets, fanboy sites, rumor mills - churning bits of information and speculation into a clattering fog storm. Who will cut through the drivel and whim-wham to tell us what's really going on?

  Robert Lipsyte

  Team, Cutting, Player

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• If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.

  Thomas Sowell

  Engineering, Knowledgeable Person, Political

  "Don't Be So Sure". www.nationalreview.com. May 16, 2007.

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• The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.

  Mark Steyn

  Responsibility, People, Pockets

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• The social and racial conflict, which springs from the redistribution ideology, may deepen as economic output is shrinking and transfer 'entitlements cause budget deficits to soar. The U.S. dollar, which has become a mere corollary of government finance, is likely to survive the soaring deficits.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Spring, Government, Dollars

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• The increase of social wealth is not accompanied by a diminishing number of capitalist magnates, but by an increasing number of capitalists of all degrees.

  Eduard Bernstein

  Numbers, Degrees, Wealth

  Eduard Bernstein (1911). “Evolutionary Socialism: a Criticism and Affirmation: (Die Voraussetzungen Des Sozialismus und Die Aufgaben Der Sozialdemokratie.)”

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• Liberals say they are for civil liberties and personal freedom, but they continue to advocate government regulation of business, redistribution of wealth, and various forms of social engineering to manipulate human relationships and attitudes.

  Richard Ebeling

  Attitude, Government, Engineering

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• Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Hate, Envy, Justice

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• Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Progress, Littles

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.270, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man.

  James Cook

  Men, Welfare, Force

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• Government is rather ill-suited and poorly equipped to alleviate the plight of the poor. It lacks moral rules or standards, and is devoid of basic principles in economic and social matters.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Government, Principles, Plight

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• The most practical information about life is sneered at by social planners.

  James Cook

  Information, Life Is, Planners

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