"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

Sociology, Society, Appearance, Identity, Perception

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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

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"Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time."

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, Swedish Businessman

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"Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation."

Pearl Zhu, American Author

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"In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers -- dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"Psychos are in uniform circulation in society."

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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"Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

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"Freud was so imbued with the spirit of his culture that he could not go beyond certain limits which were set by it. These very limits became limitations for his understanding even of the sick individual, they handicapped his understanding of the normal individual and of the irrational phenomena operating in social life."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree."

P. J. O'Rourke, American Comedian

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"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

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"Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."

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"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

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"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

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"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

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"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."

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"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."

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"Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time."

"Stereotyping as a term has a negative connotation."

"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."

"Psychos are in uniform circulation in society."

"Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."

"We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society."

"Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned."

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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."

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"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."

"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."

"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."

"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."

"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."

"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."