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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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Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to…
— J M Coetzee
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The number of hypotheses and theories about climate change are numerous. Quite naturally they have caught the public attention, as any proof…
— Unknown Author
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The very best thing that could happen to a voice, if it shows any promise at all, is when it is very…
— Jessye Norman
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I find daily life not always joyous, but always interesting. I have some sad days and nights, but none that are dull.…
— William Lyon Phelps
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The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
— Diana Vreeland
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A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had…
— Unknown Author
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In the right circumstances, MDMA reduces or sometimes eliminates the neurophysiological fear response to a perceived threat to one's emotional integrity... With…
— Unknown Author
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Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly,…
— Enoch
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There comes a moment when it is no longer you who takes the photograph, but receives the way to do it quite…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
— John Ralston Saul
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