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• The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force. — Max Eastman
• To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no… — John Stuart Mill
• History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling… — John Stuart Mill
• To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one… — Peter L. Berger
• There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who… — James Burnham
• The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst
• Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the… — Aneurin Bevan
• Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. — Henry Adams
• With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured… — Ronald Steel
• Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. — Christopher Lasch
• The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence… — Georg Simmel
• The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing… — Pope Benedict XVI

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