"Imagination is always the fabric of social life……" — Simone Weil
"Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it."
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
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