Benjamin R. Barber: Quotes about men

Benjamin R. Barber was US political scientist. Explore interesting quotes on men.
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“Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.”

Benjamin R. Barber

A Passion for Democracy: American Essays (2000) p. 211

Men , School

“Under these circumstances, men lose sight of themselves and escape into the security of work or sociability or other forms of what Vidich and Bensman have called the “externalization of the self.” Vidich and Bensman sketch a troubling picture of such men: “What is left of the personality is the dulled, autonomic ritualization of behavior where … no disturbing interferences are allowed to enter into thought. … Personal and social life becomes barren, and the personal mechanics and daily routine of living become the end-all of existence. All types of activity whose operation is based upon an objective, external, automatic rhythm to which an individual can bend himself serve the function of enabling him to lose himself in an objective ceremony.””

Benjamin R. Barber

Source: Forced to be Free (1971), p. 69, quotation is from A. J. Vidich and J. Bensman, Small Town in Mass Society (New York), p. 315

Life , Men , Behavior , Personality

“The real struggle is in fact not for but against the minds of men. Persuasion as a form of coercion represents an assault on consciousness and intentionality.”

Benjamin R. Barber

Source: Forced to be Free (1971), p. 71

Men

“Not only psychiatry itself but also the values reflected in its statistical definition of “normalcy” serve to condition men to habitual, unthinking, conformist behavior.”

Benjamin R. Barber

Source: Forced to be Free (1971), p. 68-69

Men , Behavior