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“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

“Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”

Artist Individual Solitude Isolated Being An Artist

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who lives in and for others. And the more personal relationships we form with others, the more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that there can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication with one another.”

Persons Said Two Real Form Humanity Individual Realizing Communication Isolated Entering Personal Relationships Real Person True Person

Author:Kallistos Ware

“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side.”

Soul Truth School Individual Sides Education Consciousness Mass Majority Constant Errors University Newspapers Propaganda Isolated Repetition Encyclopedia Harbour

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.”

Young Individual Space Fields Victory Absolutes Rebel Isolated

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.”

“At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.”

Firsts Individual Ideals Slavery Libertarian Passages Isolated Relevance

Author:Bernard Bailyn

“The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.”

“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”

Men Way Law Order Individual Taken Objects Sick Institutions Illness Defense Transformed Isolated Devoted Law And Order Technicians Sick Man

Book:The Practice of Everyday Life

Source: The Practice of Everyday Life

“Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.”

“The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.”

Self States Government Individual Creation Proof Isolated

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“When needs and means become abstract in quality, abstraction is also a character of the reciprocal relation of individuals to oneanother. This abstract character, universality, is the character of being recognized and is the moment which makes concrete, i.e. social, the isolated and abstract needs and their ways and means of satisfaction.”

Way Needs Mean Moments Character Individual Social Quality Relation Satisfaction Recognition Abstract Isolated Concrete Commerce Abstraction Reciprocal Universality

Book:Hegel's Philosophy of right

Source: Hegel's Philosophy of right