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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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It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
— Aristotle
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is…
— Deepak Chopra
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At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you…
— A. Philip Randolph
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In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.
— Quintilian
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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We must admit that the divine banquet of the brain was, and still is, a feast with dishes that remain elusive in…
— Unknown Author
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The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is…
— Michael Jackson
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four…
— Therese of Lisieux
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For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a…
— Rebecca Harding Davis
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Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a…
— Pope Francis
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On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."
— Yogi Berra
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