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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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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
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We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
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America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large…
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less…
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We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and…
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Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports…
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Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of…
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