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For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause…
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him…
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect…
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in…
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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It’s also true that I might have never made Taxi Driver [1976] were it not for the success of Alice [Doesn’t Live…
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The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the…
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The commercialism may wash off sometime later.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the…
— Ellen Wilkinson
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There's a lot of bad isms floating around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism.
— George Seaton
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[There is] a strange split in thinking common to those on the religious left, who are quick to denounce the profit motive…
— Unknown Author
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Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.
— Zhang Yimou
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Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really…
— Jacob Needleman
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Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically,…
— Irving Babbitt
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Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's pollution.
— Bob Dylan
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I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry…
— Larry Norman
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