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“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”

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Book:Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“What the intellectual craves above all else is to be taken seriously, to be treated as a decisive force in shaping history. He is far more at home in a society that weighs his every word and keeps close watch on his attitudes then in a society that cares not what he says or does. He would rather be persecuted than ignored.”

Doe Home Care Force Attitude Watches Taken Society Intellectual Treated Ignored Crave Persecuted

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.”

“The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen - a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life.”

May Littles Sometimes Whole Government Secret Steps Taken Society Citizens Consequence Dignity Libertarian Privacy Regions Civil Liberties Individual Liberty

Author:William O. Douglas

“Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.”

Needs Care Understanding Community Taken Society Take Care Neighborhood Kwanzaa

Book:A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

Source: A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions

“Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me, just the opposite is the case: the society exists for the individual, the culture exists for the individual, the nation exists for the individual. Everything can be sacrificed, but the individual cannot be sacrificed for anything. Individuality is the very flowering of existence - nothing is higher than it. But no culture, no society, no civilization is ready to accept a simple truth.”

Culture Individual Nations Simple Existence Accepting Cases Taken Society Ready Higher Civilization Opposites Individuality Vices Granted Vice Versa Flowering Simple Truths

Author:Rajneesh

“Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new thing in history, different from other countries. Other nations had evolved one way or another, evolved from tribes from a gathering of clans, from inevitabilities of language and tradition and geography. But America was born, and born of ideas: that all men are created equal, that they have been given by God certain rights that can be taken from them by no man, and that those rights combine to create a thing called freedom.”

“Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”

Wisdom Common Taken Wise Society Example Surprise Common Sense New Relationship Happy Thoughts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.”

Ifs Men Way Humans Persons Might Law Fall Natural Taken Violence Society Authority Injustice Innocent Wicked Exposed Human Society Innocent Person

Book:Discourses on Government

Source: Discourses on Government

“It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.”

“The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.”

Want Important America Mother Passion Father Taken Society Position Mouths Manifestation

Author:W. H. Auden