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The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
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If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture…
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Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.
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One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated…
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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions…
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The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like…
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Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
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A work of art can be called revolutionary if, by virtue of the aesthetic transformation, it represents, in the exemplary fate of…
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I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons…
— Jo Brand
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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of…
— Henry George
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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the…
— Carter Heyward
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His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is…
— Barack Obama
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My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
— Simone Weil
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Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
— Theodor Adorno
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The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce…
— Noam Chomsky
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