“Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.” MeanGovernmentMightSpiritualCertainIndividualForgetDemocracyWorstMajorityDemocraticInternalsDevicesDictatorshipInfallibleIndividual FreedomUtilitarianSpiritual FreedomDemocratic GovernmentHomogeneousSafeguardingInternal Peace Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.” DifferentEvilIndividualAttitudeWorstDifferent Attitude Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.” PeopleFeelsSometimesIndividualFeltWorstEventsStrongest Author:Chris Kyle
“Banning human cloning reflects our humanity. It is the right thing to do. Creating a child through this new method calls into question our most fundamental beliefs. It has the potential to threaten the sacred family bonds at the very core of our ideals and our society. At its worst, it could lead to misguided and malevolent attempts to select certain traits, even to create certain kind of children -- to make our children objects rather than cherished individuals.” HumansKindChildrenCertainHumanityIndividualBeliefWorstObjectsCreatingIdealsOur ChildrenMethodFundamentalsSacredCoreThings To DoRight ThingOur SocietyTraitsSelectMisguidedCloningFamily BondHuman Cloning Author:William J. Clinton
“The Adlerians, in the name of "individual psychology," take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler's later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. "Our science ... is based on common sense." Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.” WorldNamesIndividualSidesCommonHalfPsychologyWorstHonestPracticalsCommon SenseFrankConventionalHonoredDeceitfulHonest TruthHalf TruthAdler Author:Alfred Adler
“But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.” DoneFightingIndividualWorstUnitsProhibitionHandicaps Book:The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography Source: The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography
“As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow.” MenSelfTogetherIndividualLevelsNumbersVirtueWorstBoundsVicesClubsPopsSelf ConfidenceScholarCommitteesJuryComposing Author:Aleister Crowley
“The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.” PersonsValuesIndividualCasesWorstInformationIgnoranceStandardsCapitalismCloudsDrivenGenuineTreatedDataThese DaysStatisticsBlindnessFeedingIdlenessAccountingDullnessIrrelevance Book:Who Owns the Future? Source: Who Owns the Future?
“The 'coming of the Self' is immanent; and the process of collective 'individuation' is living itself out in human history. One way or another, the world is going to be made a single whole entity. But it will be unified either in mutual mass destruction or by means of mutual human consciousness. If a sufficient number of individuals can have the experience of the coming of the Self as an individual, inner experience, we may just possibly be spared the worst features of its external manifestation.” IfsWorldWayHumansMayMeanMadeSelfWholeIndividualProcessNumbersConsciousnessWorstMassDestructionIndependenceOne WayFeaturesManifestationSufficientCollectivesMutualEntityHuman HistoryMass DestructionUnifiedHuman ConsciousnessIndividuation Author:Edward F Edinger
“Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.” PeopleArtDifferentSufferingIndividualWorstDiseaseCommitmentConsequenceLogicDeeperBehaveVulnerabilityLoved OnesCrashUtilityHealedRecovering Book:The Road to Character Source: The Road to Character
“Trauma really does confront you with the best and the worst. You see the horrendous things that people do to each other, but you also see resiliency, the power of love, the power of caring, the power of commitment, the power of commitment to oneself, the knowledge that there are things that are larger than our individual survival. And in some ways, I don't think you can appreciate the glory of life unless you also know the dark side of life” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayDoeIndividualSidesDarkWorstSurvivalGloryCommitmentAppreciateOneselfCaringTraumaDark SidePower Of LoveResiliency Author:Bessel van der Kolk