John Schaar Quotes

• Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.

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  Men   Roots   America  

  John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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• The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.

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  Change   Fear   Creating  

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• The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.

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  Creating   Creating The Future  

  John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

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