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“I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.”

Humans Action Individual Responsibility Roles Failing Blind Versus Personal Responsibility Snowflake Avalanches

Book:Ally

Source: Ally

“I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith”

Individual Religious Blind Suspects Religious Faith Blind Faith

Book:A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large

Source: A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large

“Blind obedience is a sure sign of trouble. The likelihood of religion becoming evil is greatly diminished when there is freedom for individual thinking and when honest inquiry is encouraged.”

Thinking Evil Individual Trouble Honest Becoming Authority Blind Obedience Inquiry Likelihood Blind Obedience

Author:Charles Kimball

“Concern for one?s own welfare and prosperity should not blind one to one?s social obligations or spiritual destiny?.A society in which the individuals are concerned only about material welfare will not be able to achieve harmony and peace.”

Should Able Spiritual Individual Social Destiny Achieve Materials Concern Concerned Harmony Blind Prosperity Obligation Welfare Social Obligation

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“Truths, no matter how momentous or enduring, are nothing to the individual until he appreciates them, and feels their force, and acknowledges their sovereignty. He cannot bow to their majesty until he sees their power. All the blind then, and all the ignorant--that is, all the children--must be educated up to the point of perceiving and admitting the truth, and acting according to its mandates.”

Feels Children Matter Individual Force Acting Appreciate Blind Endure Ignorant Educated Acknowledge Bows Sovereignty Majesty Mandates Admitting

Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.”

“A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.”

Littles Long Country Matter Facts Individual Strong Wealth Common Family Land Members Weak Blind Unity Seven Treasure Plot Wealthy Torn Wretched Egotism

Book:Letters of Two Brides

Source: Letters of Two Brides

“The stamping out of the artist is one of the blind goals of every civilization. When a civilization becomes so standardized that the individual can no longer make an imprint on it, then that civilization is dying. The mass mind has taken over and another set of national glories is heading for history's scrap heap.”

Mind Art Artist Individual Goal Taken Dying Civilization Mass Glory Blind Headings Scrap

Author:Elie Faure