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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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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the second willfully…
— George Bancroft
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.
— Martha Beck
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition;…
— Margaret Mead
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The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
— Confucius
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To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to…
— James Bovard
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day.…
— John B. S. Haldane
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One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over…
— Jacques Monod
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For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving…
— Walter Mason Camp
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Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for…
— John Templeton
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To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start blindly with…
— Scott Watson
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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.
— Georg Cantor
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From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and…
— Unknown Author
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