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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.: Noam Chomsky (1928 - )
In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.: William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology
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I can imagine no greater disservice to the county than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Letter to Arthur Brisbane, April 25, 1917
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.: Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and War
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril.: J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961
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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day.: Anonymous
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.: Henry Brooks Adams

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