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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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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent…
— Jimmy Carter
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The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,…
— E. O. Wilson
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A form of self-delusion.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
— Daniel Greenberg
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It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion
— Calvin Coolidge
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The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist.…
— George Galloway
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The human capacity for self-delusion is boundless, and the effects of belief are overpowering.
— Michael Shermer
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If the awareness of our limitations begins to limit or to dim our value consciousness as well—as happens, for instance, in old…
— Max Scheler
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Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a…
— Irving Layton
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There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life…
— James Russell Lowell
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When you are filled with soul energy you become magnetic." 11 Teachings to help on the journey to Soul Realization: (1) Practive…
— Choa Kok Sui
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I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.
— Marcus Aurelius
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