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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 apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Cynicism and skepticism are the crudest form of quasi-intellectualism... Let the cynic become cynical of his cynicism and the skeptic skeptical of…
— R C Sproul
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Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to…
— Robert Graves
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Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
— Steven Saylor
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Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged…
— John Ralston Saul
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Why is taste, the crudest of our senses, exempted from the ethical rules that govern our other senses?
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
— Adolf Hitler
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There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material…
— Asger Jorn
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Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary -…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive…
— Tom Robbins
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It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that…
— Theodor Adorno
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