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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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He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology…
— Theodor Adorno
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in…
— Mark Twain
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The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and…
— Joseph Butler
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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous…
— Edmund Waller
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So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common…
— Neil Abercrombie
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By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens…
— Milton Friedman
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People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their…
— Milton Friedman
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My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest;…
— Benjamin Franklin
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In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar…
— Karl Marx
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And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men,…
— James Harrington
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Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without…
— Karl Marx
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Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed…
— John Ralston Saul
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