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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
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The hardest hit, as everywhere, are those who have no choice.
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The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
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An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
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