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In the book, the Social Animal by David Brooks , the author draws on the experiences of a central character and writes: On his wall, Harold had tacked another quotation, from Benjamin Disraeli, 'the spiritual nature of man is stronger than codes or constitutions. No government can endure which does not recognise that for its foundations, and no legislation last which does not flow from this foundation'. Everything came down to character, and that meant everything came down to relationships, because relationships are the seedbeds of character. The reason life and politics are so hard is that relationships are the most important, but also the most difficult, things to understand. In short, Harold entered a public-policy world in which people were used to thinking in hard, mechanistic terms. He thought he could do some good if he threw emotional and social perspectives into the mix. Socialism As Harold worked his way through the process of discovering how thi