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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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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the…
— Peter Brimelow
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I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules…
— Michael Chertoff
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The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares…
— Malcolm X
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In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.
— Paul Craig Roberts
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group…
— Paul Krugman
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This, by the way, is the welfare state in action: Its a whole bunch of special interest groups screwing consumers and taxpayers,…
— Murray Rothbard
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The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself...…
— Theda Skocpol
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There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to…
— Milton Friedman
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We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long…
— Ronald Reagan
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I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past…
— Ron Howard
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Im sorry Im not gay or Jewish, so I dont have a special interest group of journalists that support me.
— Vincent Gallo
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That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest…
— Angela Merkel
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