Jophin Mathai
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For when elites assume leadership of social change, they are able to reshape what social change is—above all, to present it as something that should never threaten winners.
“A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing
well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
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well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.”
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“If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor. This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy's motives for creating a dangerous world—a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“Equality today means “sameness,” rather than “oneness.” It is the sameness of abstractions, of the men who work in the same jobs, who have the same amusements, who read the same newspapers, who have the same feelings and the same ideas.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of reciprocal concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so outlandish as to be seen as illegitimate from the start.”
― Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
― Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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