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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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Catholicism is the tomb of intelligence, of thought, of brain; Protestantism, the tomb of conscience, of feeling, of heart.
— Unknown Author
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I believe that Judaism was an improvement on polytheism; Christianity was an improvement on Judaism (to some degree and in some departments…
— Thomas Ferguson
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Protestantism includes every type of religious thought and organization from 'high church' Anglicanism to high-principled Quakerism, from ecstatic Methodism to relentlessly intellectual…
— Lewis Browne
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. . . I fail to find a trace [in Protestantism] of any desire to set reason free. The most that can…
— Thomas Huxley
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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a…
— Peter L. Berger
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Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics…
— Peter Kreeft
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The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry…
— John Foxe
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One classical role of the pulpit in Protestantism has been to 'preach sermons' which imply indoctrination more than education. Within this from…
— Robert H. Schuller
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The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,…
— Edmund Burke
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When the problems in Northern Ireland started, it was not a question of Protestantism or Catholicism, because the Catholic church was the…
— Harri Holkeri
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Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture
— B. B. Warfield
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