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Simon deVeer
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If business people behave in the purely selfish and self-serving way that economic theory assumes, our free-market system tends to spawn manipulation and deception. The problem is not that there are a lot of evil people. Most people play by
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“When Fascism came into power, most people were unprepared, both theoretically and practically. They were unable to believe that man could exhibit such propensities for evil, such lust for power, such disregard for the rights of the weak, or such yearning for submission. Only a few had been aware of the rumbling of the volcano preceding the outbreak.”
― Escape from Freedom
― Escape from Freedom
“It seems that nothing is more difficult for the average man to bear than the feeling of not being identified with a larger group.”
― Escape from Freedom
― Escape from Freedom
“Your task is to accept yourself—not to find ways to gain my acceptance.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“My friend,” he whispered, “I cannot tell you how to live differently because, if I did, you would still be living another’s design.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
― The Origins of Totalitarianism
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