Democracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
B. W. POWEDemocracies should be a delirium of choices – more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.
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We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN.
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A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.
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Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn’t work out in theory.
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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
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It began in images and it ended in symbolism.
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We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.
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The Trojan War without Homer was nothing more than a battle over trade routes.
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Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.
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No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.
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Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.
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Certainty is usually a sign of pathology.
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If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
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Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.
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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors’ rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
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