Robert M. Lindner Quotes

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• How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
• As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
• Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
• It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
• Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and within the limits marked by…
• It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.
• Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song, the piper's tune to which…
• We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.
• In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind,…
• Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
• What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
• Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
• Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

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