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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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Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means…
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Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea…
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Confidence is closely linked to how well our perceptions match reality
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Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory…
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We are dealing with a yet unrecognized level of consciousness, independent of man but closely linked to the earth.... I do not…
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The best chess masters of every epoch have been closely linked with the values of the society in which they lived and…
— Garry Kasparov
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He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked…
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Food to a large extent is what holds a society together, and eating is closely linked to deep spiritual experiences.
— Peter Farb
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