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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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Obstinacy and dogmatism are the surest signs of stupidity. Is there anything more confident, resolute, disdainful, grave and serious than an ass?
— Michel de Montaigne
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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for…
— Joyce Cary
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Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by…
— Sherrie Levine
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination…
— Taisen Deshimaru
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I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more…
— Matt Walsh
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
— Peter Brook
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Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.
— Sextus Empiricus
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Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves…
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.
— Ronald Fisher
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Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute…
— Richard P. Feynman
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The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.
— Albert Einstein
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