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When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my mother for an act of collective brutality in which I had been involved at school. A group of seven-year-olds had been teasing and tormenting a six-year-old.
"It is always so," my mother said. "You do things together which not one of you would think of doing alone." ... Wherever one looks in the world of human organization, collective responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. The military establishment is an extreme case, an organization which seems to have been expressly designed to make it possible for people to do things together which nobody in their right mind would do alone.-- Freeman Dyson ("Weapons and Hope")
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."-- Norman Douglas
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."-- Henry Van Dyke
Renning's Maxim: Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
You're probably the sort who would have Dorothy arrested for throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.-- Eric Holeman
Insofar as possible, I surround myself with pleasant, tolerant, intelligent people. Life's too short to spend it with people who don't like what you are.-- Eric Holeman
"As long as the music's loud enough, we won't hear the world falling apart."-- Derek Jarman
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.-- Max Frisch
'Truth' never set anyone free. It is only doubt which will bring mental emancipation.-- Anton LaVey