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The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.


Minoru Yamasaki


#belief #beliefs #center #cooperation #dedication

Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and we recognize how we are perceived and how the real core individual that each one of us has apart from the facade that the public believes that we are.


James Young


#apart #believes #comfortable #core #each

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you.


George Carlin


#individuality #beauty

Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.


Jaron Lanier


#crowd #individuality #internet #mob #technology

I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the same place with only a week at the seaside in between. I dreamed of escape - but what is terrible about industrialisation is that it makes escape necessary. In a system that generates masses, individualism is the only way out. But then what happens to community - to society?


Jeanette Winterson


#industrialisation #society #working-class #dreams

We are against ignorance. We feel that you have to educate yourself, no matter what the situation is. People who refuse to educate themselves - people who refuse to find out what something is about, that they're frightened of - find comfort in being ignorant.” --Zeena Schreck Interview for KJTV-1990


Zeena Schreck


#fear #fear-of-unknown #ignorance #independent-thinking #individuality

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker


Malcolm X


#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.


Louis Simpson


#capitalism #freedom #frontier #individualism #liberalism

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.


Michael J. Sandel


#individuals #liberalism #liberty #states #values

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: "I.


Ayn Rand


#god #individual #pride #freedom






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