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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 essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has…
— Bruce Barton
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Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
— Aphra Behn
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What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can…
— Julie Burchill
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If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia…
— Buzz Aldrin
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The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by…
— Jarvis Cocker
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All nations are degrading and consuming their environment to a point beyond capacity. In the past 15 years in the U.S. we…
— Gaylord Nelson
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A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled -…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the…
— Katharine Fullerton Gerould
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Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and…
— Clay Shirky
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet,…
— Frances M. Young
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The body is consuming energy when tense, and restoring energy when it is relaxed.
— Ronnie Lott
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