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“The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.”

Self Whole Individual Loses Forget Sacrifice Society Produce Losing Impulse Mask Collectives Willingness Forget It Readiness Unwanted Compact Revulsion Slough

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”

People Way Lying Evil Force Easy Loses Society Losing Standing Silent Oneself Obvious Senses Resistance Destroyed Repeats Liars Controlled Cooperation Resisting Erode Probity

Author:Theodore Dalrymple

“Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.”

Men Doe Individual Loses Society

Book:The Influence of Jesus

Source: The Influence of Jesus

“You are not born racist. You are born into a racist society. And like anything else, if you can learn it, you can unlearn it. But some people choose not to unlearn it, because they're afraid they'll lose power if they share with other people. We are afraid of sharing power. That's what it's all about.”

People Ifs Fear Born Loses Power Society Share Feminist Racist White Supremacy Supremacy Unlearn Anti Racist White Power

Author:Jane Elliott

“Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.”

Ifs Hands Loses Society Conditions Mets Solitude Independence Sympathy

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”

Men Life Happiness Success Loses Attitude Society Dangerous Creation African American Dangerous Things Nothing To Lose Dangerous Man

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”

Art Sides Loses Society Gains Instinct Acquire

Book:Select Essays and Poems

Source: Select Essays and Poems

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.”

Men Doe Self Life Is Water Born Loses Society Identity Development Ocean Independent Drop Of Water

Author:B. R. Ambedkar

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

“What man loses by the social contract is his natural liberty and an unlimited right to everything he tries to get and succeeds in getting; what he gains is civil liberty and the proprietorship of all he possesses.”

Men Trying Social Loses Natural Liberty Society Succeed Gains Contracts Unlimited Civil Liberties Social Contract

Author:Jean-Baptiste Rousseau