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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society. – Herbert Spencer

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In science the important thing is to modify and change ones ideas as science advances. – Herbert Spencer

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. – Herbert Spencer

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Although images of perfection in peoples personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies – utopian images – can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century. – Dennis Prager

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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one – You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. – Abbe Pierre

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Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, “On the Pitying,” Thus Spake Zarathustra

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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. – Karl Marx

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