A Quote by Boris Sidis

The recognition, the diagnosis, and the preservation of psychopathic individuals account for the apparent increase of neurotics in civilized communities.

Boris Sidis

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Account Apparent Civilized Communities Diagnosis Increase Individuals Preservation Psychopathic Recognition

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Boris Sidis
American - Psychologist
October 12, 1867 - October 24, 1923

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Wendy Kaminer

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Albert Bushnell Hart

There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving communities and the values they embody.

Richard Moe

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Thorstein Veblen

It's a uniquely American thing that we as individuals not relying on government but we as individuals pitch in to make our communities better.

Neil Bush

Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as well as for communities.

Heather Mac Donald

There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

Helen Rowland

Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.

Epicurus

Apparent confusion is a product of good order; apparent cowardice, of courage; apparent weakness, of strength.

Sun Tzu

The anarchist philosophy is that the new social order is to be built up by groupings of men together in communities - whether in communities of work or communities of culture or communities of artists - but in communities.

Dorothy Day

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

Arthur Koestler

Tocqueville talked about "ceaseless agitation," citizens constantly use their institutions, constantly challenging them, constantly insisting upon their rights. It's also individuals taking responsibility for other individuals, recognition that no democracy works if they're weaklings.

Condoleezza Rice

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

Mary Wollstonecraft

In recent years it's become really apparent, the division between what government is and what communities want.

Ashley Zukerman

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.