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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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What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
— Ellen Burstyn
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I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was…
— Dave Barry
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When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever…
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In an era when careerism dominates the campus, is it too much to expect students to go beyond their private interests, learn…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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...it would be a mistake...to ascribe to Roman legal conceptions an undivided sway over the development of law and institutions during the…
— Woodrow Wilson
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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.…
— Joan Halifax
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It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Arists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.
— Marshall McLuhan
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To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.
— Jack Kornfield
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Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then…
— Tony Benn
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