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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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... The meeting is called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day…
— Ahmed Chalabi
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Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence…
— George Santayana
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Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because…
— Robert Adams
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can…
— Patrick Dempsey
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By all means examine the games of the great chess players, but don't swallow them whole. Their games are valuable not for…
— Anatoly Karpov
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Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
— Jim Jarmusch
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I knew that most people never see this reality because they attach to the material aspect of the world. Illusions of self…
— Gautama Buddha
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The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
— Chuck Klosterman
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Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious…
— Thomas Sowell
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The trouble with too many people is they believe the realm of truth always lies within their vision.
— Abraham Lincoln
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and…
— Carine Roitfeld
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Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.
— Clinton Lee Scott
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