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Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or…

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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…
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
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…
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
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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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
More than anything else today, followers believe they are part of a system, a process that lacks heart. If there is one… — Lance Secretan
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best. — Robert Browning
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get… — Maxwell Maltz
I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our… — Unknown Author
My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's… — John D. Rockefeller
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. — Heinrich Heine
The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do… — Paul Polman
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live… — Robert A. Heinlein
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad, and it is better still to sit with the good… — Muhammad
From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has… — Winston Churchill
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again,… — Miles Franklin

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