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“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”
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“As the interpretation of reality by the power structure, ideology is always subordinated ultimately to the interests of the structure. Therefore, it has a natural tendency to disengage itself from reality, to create a world of appearances, to become ritual... Increasingly, the virtuosity of the ritual becomes more important than the reality hidden behind it.”
― The Power of the Powerless
― The Power of the Powerless
“There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.”
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“Our concern is whether we can live with dignity in such a system, whether it serves people rather than people serving it.”
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“In everyone there is some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life. This is much more than a simple conflict between two identities. It is something far worse: it is a challenge to the very notion of identity itself.”
― The Power of the Powerless
― The Power of the Powerless
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