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• So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.

  Emma Goldman

  Spiritual, Mean, Class

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for the improvement of community life, police protection for safety, military poise for national security, the rat race for productive work.

  Ivan Illich

  Military, Race, Productive Work

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

  Eric Hoffer

  Engineering, Important, Problem

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• To overcome our biological limitations as individuals, we have co-evolved collective systems and capacities - cultural, social, economic, political, scientific, media, educational, public relations, etc. But the flaw in all that is that we have designed them primarily for comfort, profit, power, control, and entertainment rather than for collective intelligence, sanity, and wisdom.

  Tom Atlee

  Educational, Media, Political

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• There's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Sometimes that's for economic reasons, because they want to build a supermarket there. The imam will hold a prayer and say let's get rid of the girls, but on the other hand they're all going there.

  Michael Glawogger

  Girl, Prayer, Hands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

  Vaclav Havel

  Heart, Different, World

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• The best way for business to move out of the Hall of Shame is to demonstrate a commitment to social causes. This also makes business sense. A focus on solving social problems has motivational benefits in lean economic times.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Moving, Commitment, Focus

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• Once we begin to speak of men mixing their labour with the earth, we are in a whole world of new relations between man and nature, and to separate natural history from social history becomes extremely problematic.

  Raymond Williams

  Men, Mixing, World

  Raymond Williams (2005). “Culture and Materialism: Selected Essays”, p.76, Verso

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• I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Trying, Cards

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• That which distinguishes the Soviet system both from other national systems and from the progressive schools of other countries is the conscious control of every educational procedure by reference to a single and comprehensive social purpose.

  John Dewey

  Country, Educational, School

  John Dewey (1984). “The Later Works of John Dewey 1927-1928: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and "Impressions of Soviet Russia"”, p.230, SIU Press

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• How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

  Neil Simon

  Long, Enjoy Life, Waiting

  Neil Simon (1971). “The comedy of Neil Simon”, Random House Inc

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• The dissonance that I felt daily flew in the face of what Silicon Valley says about itself: that it is a meritocracy, that it values intelligence and creativity, that everyone has a fair shot if they just work hard enough. This was true only if you were technical, and even that may not always be enough: in the age of the social network, who you know and who your friends were was becoming increasingly important.

  Katherine Losse

  Hard Work, Creativity, Important

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• I had grown up among engineers, and I could remember the engineers of the twenties very well indeed: their open, shining intellects, their free and gentle humor, their agility and breadth of thought, the ease with which they shifted from one engineering field to another, and, for that matter, from technology to social concerns and art. Then, too, they personified good manners and delicacy of taste; well-bred speech that flowed evenly and was free of uncultured words; one of them might play a musical instrument, another dabble in painting; and their faces always bore a spiritual imprint.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Technology

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• I don't have a social agenda. I just don't choose to ignore what's in front of me.

  John Sayles

  Agendas, Fronts

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• Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

  James Frey

  Shopping, Novelists, Bags

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• We must move from ... the primacy of technology toward considerations of social justice and equity, from the dictates of organizational convenience toward the aspirations ofself realization and learning, from authoritarianism and dogmatism toward more participation, from uniformity and centralization toward diversity and pluralism, from the concept of work as hard and unavoidable, from life as nasty, brutish, and short toward work as purpose and self~fulfillment, a recognition of leisure as a valid activity in itself.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Technology, Justice

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• Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. There is, above all, genuine, revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Order, Russia

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• As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

  Adolf Hitler

  Ideas, Flags, Movement

  Adolf Hitler (1939). “Mein kampf, complete and unabridged, fully annotated”

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• For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Men, Errors, Evil

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• Dependency encourages social problems.

  Jim DeMint

  Problem, Social Problems, Dependency

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• A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

  William James

  Thinking, Hands, Facts

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Numbers, Degrees, Unions

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• There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual.

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Skills, Important, Velocity

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• Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.

  Anne Fontaine

  Numbers, Political, Desire

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Thinking, People

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