"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life."

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Source : "The Metropolis and Modern Life" by Georg Simmel (1903), translated by Kurt Wolff in "The Sociology of Georg Simmel" edited by D. Weinstein, New York: Free Press, (p. 422), 1950.

Georg Simmel

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“There were 315,000 slave owners in the Union Army (with 200,000 in the Confederate Army) and the men who walked away from the Union Army were adamantly opposed to freeing slaves. We cite these facts and recorded statistics to point out that the principal cause of the war was not the issue of slavery.”
“The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.”
“I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.”
“I think we are in ratsâ€™ alley Where the dead men lost their bones.”
“Sometimes the hardest thing to do in a pressure situation is to allow the tension to persist. The temptation is to make a decision, any decision, even if it is an inferior choice.”
“I care very much about women and their progress. I didnâ€™t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.”
“A final word of advice: don't gloat about how well you have done.”

Source : Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.130, Harvard University Press
“We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.”

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