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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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We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the…
— Jacques Ellul
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We have to love our freedom, not just for the private opportunities it provides, but for the goodness it makes possible.
— John McCain
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping…
— Rollo May
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Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are…
— William DeWitt Hyde
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Purity perceives and respects the character of sex-its depth, seriousness, intimacy, and true home within wedded love, which alone makes possible the…
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils…
— Mircea Eliade
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Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.
— Marco Tempest
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The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and…
— Wayne Teasdale
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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore…
— Helene Cixous
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A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a…
— Peter Drucker
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap…
— Alvin Toffler
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The light of Christ illuminates the laboratory, his speech is the fount of communication, he makes possible the study of humans in…
— Mark Noll
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