"In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is……" — Robert M. Lindner
"In the crowd, herd, or gang, it is a mass-mind that operates-which is to say, a mind without subtlety, a mind without compassion, a mind, finally, uncivilized."
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Robert M. Lindner
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13 Quotes by Robert M. Lindner
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How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
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As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
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Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
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It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
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Only by being permitted to experience the consequences of his actions will the child acquire a sense of responsibility; and…
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It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality…
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Adjustment, that synonym for conformity that comes more easily to the modern tongue, is the theme of our swan song,…
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We should not wonder at the success of communism, for so much of its success is rather that of religion.
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Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
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What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
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Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
— Karen Armstrong
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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