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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

“Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.”

People Fighting Winning Individual Strong Feet Rocks Thousand Ten Mountain Weak Momentum

Author:Du Mu

“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big - and takes on that damned capital C - they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

“Nothing is more evident, I venture to think, as a result of two or three thousand years of social philosophizing, than that society must live and thrive by way of the native impulses of individual human beings.”

Thinking Way Years Humans Two Three Individual Social Human Beings Results Thousand Impulse Native Thrive Thousand Years Venture Evident

Author:William Ernest Hocking

“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.”

Ifs Individual Rooms Pieces Broken Thousand Authority Institutions Faults Anything Goes

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.”

World Doe Made Sometimes Use Would Be Earth Individual Wonder Planets Thousand Areas Murder Logical Civilians Explosives Anthem National Anthem

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945

“The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically.”

Mind Persons States Individual Steps Teaching Awareness Masters Thousand Ten Majority Block State Of Mind Framework Zen Master Conceptual Framework

Author:Frederick Lenz

“When certain unmarried men, who had lost their capacity to sin, sat indoors, breathing bad air, and passed resolutions about what was right and what wrong, making rules for the guidance of the people, instead of trusting to the natural, happy instincts of the individual, they ushered in the Dark Ages. These are the gentlemen who blocked human evolution absolutely for a thousand years.”

“Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.”

Character Individual Thousand Shapes Diversity Earnest Superfluous Mirth Moats Proteus

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.”

Character Law Life Is Values Individual Broken Thousand Ideals Gold Genuine Despite Brown Diverse Stamps Mint John Brown

Book:Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

Source: Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second

“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

“Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.”

Thinking World Should Writing Believe Book Ideas Individual Religious Atheism Thousand Ten Dear Positive Atheism Publishing Reformation Sects Religious Sects

Book:Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

Source: Jefferson: Magnificent Populist

“Budgets are not merely affairs of arithmetic, but in a thousand ways go to the root of prosperity of individuals, the relation of classes and the strength of kingdoms.”

Way Individual Class Thousand Roots Relation Affair Prosperity Kingdoms Budgets Arithmetic

Author:William E. Gladstone