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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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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first…
— Jean Cocteau
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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes…
— Maya Angelou
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from any other…
— Wilbur Smith
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.
— Tacitus
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When the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry defenders of intolerance who have…
— John Shelby Spong
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No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of…
— Aldous Huxley
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I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption…
— Abraham Lincoln
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This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative.…
— Rajneesh
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My caddie dared me to try it, but I didn't think it was worth losing a ball.
— Ian Woosnam
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We have crushed the whole force which dared to venture there. They were on the runway at Saddam International Airport. That force…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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Only those who have dared to let go can dare to re-enter.
— Meister Eckhart
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