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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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I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public…
— Grover Cleveland
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As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom,…
— Vaclav Klaus
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Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
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And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at…
— Kate Chopin
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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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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged…
— Victoria Wood
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Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a…
— Susan Griffin
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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the…
— Wallace Stegner
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I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world,…
— Nora Roberts
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Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck,…
— Ann Aguirre
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But you have said it too often, Mr. Benedict!" said Mrs. Perumal in an imperious tone that was quite out of character.…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Some philosophers can't bear to say simple things, like "Suppose a dog bites a man." They feel obliged instead to say, "Suppose…
— Daniel Dennett
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