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— Wendell Phillips"No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents."
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One's fetishes are fascinating, but not because of their beauty or significance. The same could be said for one's genitals, or one's children.
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The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.
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