Quote by Lucy Powell
At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the rig

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship. – Lucy Powell

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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times. – Lucy Powell

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Sports
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Theres a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. – Lucy Powell

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Faith
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The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase womens representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians. – Lucy Powell

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Politics
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The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. – Erich Fromm

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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. – John W. Gardner

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Society

A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today. – Christopher Lasch

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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. – Herbert Read

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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove ones self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment. – Warren Farrell

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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

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