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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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I like to be in waiting rooms with people as they're auditioning, because their terror calms me.
— John C. McGinley
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I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are…
— Stephen King
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Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone's…
— Stephen King
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Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some…
— Isabel Wilkerson
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Born in elevators and supermarkets, Muzak has spread to restaurants, hotels, airplanes, telephone hold services, and waiting rooms. The public-relations experts believe…
— John Ralston Saul
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She took out a shiny folded pamphlet, the kind they kept stacked in clear plastic stands in hospital waiting rooms. "How to…
— Cassandra Clare
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Why do waiting rooms have to be so ominous?
— Jenna Morasca
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