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Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

— Benjamin Barber Jihad vs. McWorld (1996)

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Not only psychiatry itself but also the values reflected in its statistical definition of “normalcy” serve to condition men to habitual, unthinking, conformist behavior.

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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

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We know ourselves by understanding our temporality, our embeddedness in time, our connection to roots—even roots from which we have knowingly severed ourselves.

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The real struggle is in fact not for but against the minds of men. Persuasion as a form of coercion represents an assault on consciousness and intentionality.

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I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and nonlearners.

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Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

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