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“Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.”

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Book:A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

Source: A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”

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Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.”

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Author:Nhat Hanh

“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”

Source: The House of Intellect

“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.”

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Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.”

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Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Leaders are custodians of trust. Their actions should uplift the weakest, inspire the capable, and protect the vulnerable. Leadership without accountability is merely authority, and authority without justice corrodes society.”

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Author:Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“People with vision sees opportunity where there is problem. They see money not problem.”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder

“Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.”

“People nowadays talk about the world's problems like they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they're told and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem