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• Fate forces its way to the powerful and violent. With subservient obedience it will assume for years dependency on one individual:Caesar, Alexander, Napoleon, because it loves the elemental human being who grows to resemble it, the intangible element. Sometimes, and these are the most astonishing moments in world history, the thread of fate falls into the hands of a complete nobody but only for a twitching minute.

  Stefan Zweig

  Leadership, Powerful, Fall

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• The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .

  Janet Flanner

  Moving, Passion, Steel

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• When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

  Guy Finley

  Heart, Light, Fearless

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• Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Secret, Democracy, Trying

  "Limit Pay, Not Unions". www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2011.

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• We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Freedom, Government, Self

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.

  Gerda Lerner

  Girl, Adventure, Motherhood

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• There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in which the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.

  Michel Foucault

  Determination, Exercise, People

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• Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.

  Emile Durkheim

  Reality, Practice, Criticism

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• ...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.

  Angelina Grimke

  Believe, Character, Responsibility

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• The tendency of organization is to kill out the spirit which gave it birth. Organizations do not protect the sacredness of the individual; their tendency is to sink the individual in the mass, to sacrifice his rights, and to immolate him on the altar of some fancied good.

  Angelina Grimke

  Sacrifice, Rights, Organization

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• As Anna Freud remarked, the toddler who wanders off into some other aisle, feels lost, and screams anxiously for his mother neversays "I got lost," but accusingly says "You lost me!" It is a rare mother who agrees that she lost him! she expects her child to stay with her; in her experience it is the child who has lost track of the mother, while in the child's experience it is the mother who has lost track of him. Each view is entirely correct from the perspective of the individual who holds it .

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Mother, Children, Views

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• Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Art, Appreciate, Judging

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• It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Drama, Character, Degrees

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• It is hereby earnestly proposed that the USA would be much better off if that big, sprawling, incoherent, shapeless, slobbering civic idiot in the family of American communities, the City of Los Angeles, could be declared incompetent and placed in charge of a guardian like any individual mental defective.

  Westbrook Pegler

  Cities, Usa, Community

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• There is a glorious pattern for every man's life, an individual, perfect patter. No two people are alike ... No two leaves are alike-no two snowstorms-no two sets of fingerprints. No two lives are alike, yet each life holds a divine pattern of unfoldment, a great and holy destiny, rich in achievement and honor. As you live true to the pattern of yourself, that deep, inner self, you will unfold as perfect, as joyous, as naturally beautiful as the tree will reach its full measure of fulfillment.

  Annalee Skarin

  Beautiful, Destiny, Men

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• Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Education, America, Improving

  "Revue internationale de pédagogie expérimentale", Vol. 22-23, H. Dunantlaan 1, p. 367, 1985.

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• Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

  Robert Bork

  Christian, Religious, Matter

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• God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.

  Carman

  Christian, Religious, Block

  Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution

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• The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.

  Stephen V Monsma

  Christian, Religious, Understanding

  Stephen V. Monsma (1995). “Positive Neutrality: Letting Religious Freedom Ring”, Baker Publishing Group

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• With each passing year, people of faith grow increasingly distressed by the hostility of public institutions toward religious expression. We have witnessed the steady erosion of the time-honored rights of religious Americans - both as individuals and as communities - to practice what they believe in the public square.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Believe

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• In the theater one must sit in such a way that one sees the audience as a dark mass. Then it cannot bother one more than it does an actor. Nothing is more disturbing than being able to distinguish individuals in the crowd.

  Karl Kraus

  Dark, Doe, Actors

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.

  William E. Gladstone

  Class, Roots, Kingdoms

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• Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Numbers, People

  Margaret Thatcher (1977). “Let our children grow tall: selected speeches, 1975-1977”

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• As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

  Henry George

  Produce, Nations

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• The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of government, to secure the rights of individuals and to effect their safety and happiness. In modern society, no individual can do this alone. So government is not a necessary evil but a necessary good.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Rights, Government, Safety

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