He made the distinction between social achievements and individual rights.

I agree that individual rights only enrich our social achievements.

It is an extraordinary social achievement that so many women now have the opportunity to work.

We are the apex of human social and technological achievement.

It gives no credit to the equally striking social achievements.

And they had a technological sophistication that matched their social achievement.

Attention must be paid to its "astonishingly great" social, cultural and economic achievements.

Harmonisation must not be at the expense of social achievements, however.

We will need to remain very vigilant about holding onto social achievements.

In Europe, too, the debate about climate change has reached a dimension which is putting social achievements at risk.