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The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind – not the fiend or the sadist. – Erich Fromm

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The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. – Erich Fromm

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Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. – Erich Fromm

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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart. – Ed Koch

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Back in the East you cant do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power. – Tom Stoppard

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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see. – Black Elk

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I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make. – Leif Garrett

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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. – Edmund Burke

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Religion is induced insanity. – Madalyn Murray OHair

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I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead. – Woody Allen

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We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. – Davy Crockett

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