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“What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?”

Ifs Men Reality Individual Struggle Imagine Activism Despite Release Behave Solidarity Innate Decency Unending

Book:The Murray Bookchin Reader

Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader

“It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.”

Individual Belief Force Nations Imagine Effects Military Type Demand Folly Aggressive Imagine That Payment Opposing Formidable Susceptible Deterrent

Author:B. H. Liddell Hart

“Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.”

Art Whole Individual Audience Imagine Art Is Individuality

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.”

Ifs Thinking Whole Able Individual Can Do Imagine Risk Weapons Harm Nuclear Enormous Isolated Nuclear Weapons Lunatic Civil Society

Author:Joshua Lederberg

“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late, and they find out they aren't after all.”

Individual Imagine Thousand Late Fifty Too Late Exceptional

Book:Earth and High Heaven

Source: Earth and High Heaven

“I enjoy entering the viewpoint of characters who are as different from myself as I can get - children, elderly women, animals, a sexy death row murderess - and to imagine how these disparate individuals see the world's cruelty and beauty and vastness.”

World Children I Can Different Character Individual Enjoy Animal Imagine Sexy Cruelty Entering Elderly Viewpoints Vastness Death Row

Author:Scott Bradfield

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn't have the weight of gender expectations.”

Ifs Should Self Problem Would Be Individual Imagine Expectations Weight Gender Recognizing

Book:We Should All Be Feminists

Source: We Should All Be Feminists

“I dont know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, its very difficult to find.”

Ifs Knows Looks Individual Difficult Imagine Identity Absolutes Individuality Imagine That Personal Identity

Author:John Banville

“But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.”

Ifs World Ideas Different Individual Steps Imagine Negative Being True Enterprise

Book:The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

Source: The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue