The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

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Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors.

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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.

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Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

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Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

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Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.

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