"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."

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“Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.”

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“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.”

“Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfilment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.”

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— Edward Said

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— Karl Popper

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— Lawrence Wilkerson

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