In reality, freedom is aristocratic, not democratic. With sorrow we must recognize the fact that freedom is dear only to those men who think creatively. It is not very necessary to those who do not value thinking. In the so-called democracies, based on the principle of popular sovereignty, a considerable proportion of the people are those who have not yet become conscious of themselves as free beings, bearing within themselves the dignity of freedom. Education to freedom is something still ahead of us, and this will not be achieved in a hurry.
-Nikolai Berdiaev, “The Realm of Spirit and the Realm of Caesar”
It is well known, for instance, that enormous private multinational corporations are curiously like socialist states. With industrialization, centralization, specialization, monopolization, and finally with automation and computerization, the elements of depersonalization and the loss of meaning of work become more and more profound everywhere.
-Vaclav Havel, “Work by Any Other Name”
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