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Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

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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…
An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.
The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert…
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals…
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…
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet…
The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the…
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…
Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that…
Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the…
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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When you treat reprehensible and ludicrous arguments with respect you have elevated the reprehensible and made the ludicrous a bit more reasonable.… — Jonah Goldberg
Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change… — Gene Siskel
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance… — George Saintsbury
That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or… — Bainbridge Colby
There's no question that largely vegetarian diets are as healthy as you can get. The evidence is so strong and overwhelming and… — Marion Nestle
Hunger is not debatable. — Harry Hopkins
It was a fair decision, the penalty, even though it was debatable whether it was inside or outside the box — Bobby Charlton
If in a battle, I seize a bit of debatable land with a handful of soldiers, without having done anything to prevent… — Aron Nimzowitsch
There's math, and everything else is debatable! — Chris Rock
It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world. — Criss Jami
Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death. — John Ralston Saul
Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state. — John Shelby Spong

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