“There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”
Source: Watchmen
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Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
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The Onassis Prize For Man and Mankind (1993)
Context: An ordinary human being, with a personal conscience, personally answering for something to somebody and personally and directly taking responsibility, seems to be receding farther and farther from the realm of politics. Politicians seem to turn into puppets that only look human and move in a giant, rather inhuman theatre; they appear to become merely cogs in a huge machine, objects of a major civilizational automatism which has gotten out of control and for which nobody is responsible.
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Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley (1929), Ch. 5.
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