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“The American child is a highly intelligent human being - characteristically sensitive, humorous, open-minded, eager to learn, and has a strong sense of excitement, energy, and healthy curiosity about the world in which he lives. Lucky indeed is the grown-up who manages to carry these same characteristics into adult life. It usually makes for a happy and successful individual.”

“Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.”

Way Certain Values Individual Social Moral Principles Treats Characteristics Organized Appropriate

Author:Erving Goffman

“Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.”

Way Humans Individual Nations Existence Quality Liberty Moral Produce Jew Characteristics Maintaining Intervention Englishmen Elimination Unwanted Sterilization

Author:Francis Galton

“We see, then, that the disappearance of the conscious personality, the predominance of the unconscious personality, the turning by means of suggestion and contagion of feelings and ideas in an identical direction, the tendency to immediately transform the suggested ideas into acts; these, we see, are the principal characteristics of the individual forming part of a crowd. He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.”

Mean Ideas Feelings Individual Atheism Personality Conscious Crowds Positive Atheism Tendencies Characteristics Unconscious Principal Suggestions Identical Disappearance Contagion

Book:Psychologie des foules

Source: Psychologie des foules

“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.”

Feels Humans Doe Stills Self Problem Today Individual Sex Human Beings Quality Depends Harmony Solve Oneness Characteristics Traits Superficial Elimination

Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.”

Play Individual Groups Fairs Characteristics Fairness Fair Play

Book:Under dispute

Source: Under dispute

“the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.”

Men Humans Individual Sex Term Conditions Men And Women Gender Impulse Characteristics Appropriate Androgyny

Book:Toward a recognition of androgyny

Source: Toward a recognition of androgyny

“The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live--he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.”

Men World Want May Lasts Individual Cities Existence Type Terror Characteristics Collectives End Of The World

Book:The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history

Source: The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history

“We can most safely achieve truly universal tolerance when we respect that which is characteristic in the individual and in nations, clinging, though, to the conviction that the truly meritorious is unique by belonging to all of mankind.”

Individual Nations Achieve Mankind Unique Universal Conviction Tolerance Characteristics Belonging Clinging

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.”

Should Government Action Individual Nations Honesty Policy Citizens Morality Standards Ethics Characteristics Foreign Policy

Author:Jimmy Carter