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In both rich and poor nations consumption is polarized while expectation is equalized.


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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.



We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.



School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.



The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.

The true miracle of modern medicine is diabolical. It consists in making not only individuals but whole populations survive on inhumanly low levels of personal health.



Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.



We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.



The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.



School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.



Schools teach the need to be taught.

Schools teach the need to be taught.



Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.

Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.





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