A Quote by Albert J. Nock
There's only one way to improve society. Present it with a single improved unit: yourself.
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The only thing that the psychically-human being can do to improve society is to present society with one improved unit.
If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.
Humanity can only improve as people improve. When you have improved your life, you can inspire those around you to want to improve their lives. Remember that a few in harmony with God's will are more powerful than multitudes out of harmony.
Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, your improve your world.
The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better." -- The Alchemist
It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.
The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.
Mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.
Some believe that to be authentic, you have to present yourself the same way in every situation. At first thought, this notion seems reasonable, but when you really think about it - not so much. The way you interact with your boss is not the same way you need to interact with your family, peers, team members, or clients. It is not only okay to present yourself differently in various situations but crucial to being perceived as authentic.
The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.
Healthy attention is to improve what can be improved and to accept what we cannot improve.
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.
The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.
It is not with low prices-but on the contrary-it is with improved quality we cannot only hold the market, but improve it.
Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable.
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