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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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What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on…
— Clay Shirky
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The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations…
— Amartya Sen
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Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
— Kenneth Rexroth
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I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
— Rick Moody
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Taoism has no rules. It's a suggestion for preceiving life in its wholeness, without unnessary categorization, yet enjoying the beauty of categorization.
— Frederick Lenz
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I believe that the development of language - of naming, categorization, conceptualization - destroys our ability to see as we age.
— Chris Ware
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Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.
— Dwight Yoakam
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Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science,…
— John Ralston Saul
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But Saudi Arabia is surprising in a lot of ways. Like any place, or any people, it relentlessly defies easy categorization.
— Dave Eggers
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I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.
— Tony Hawk
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
— Abbie Hoffman
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You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the…
— Robert Morgan
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