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The acceptance of corporatism causes us to deny and undermine the legitimacy of the individual as citizen in a democracy. The result…
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An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
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The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
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A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service…
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The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
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The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
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Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
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Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
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All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
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In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been…
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Behold a republic standing erect while empires all around are bowed beneath the weight of their own armaments - a republic whose…
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In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world…
— Albert Einstein
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I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law,…
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So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of…
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The very existence of armaments and great armies psychologically accustoms us to accept the philosophy of militarism. They inevitably increase fear and…
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It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that…
— Hermann Oberth
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There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of…
— Pope John XXIII
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We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If a country develops an economic system that is based on how to pay for the war, and if the amounts of…
— Unknown Author
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The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation... to enable governments to engage in a…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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People, and not only Americans, are losing their sons, husbands, brothers, and fathers for no other reason than the profits of US…
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife…
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