“A sociedade é, em todos os lugares, uma conspiração contra a personalidade de seus componentes.”
society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members
"Essay II", in: Essays, by ralph waldo emerson - Página 23 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=qzzSREp_83MC&pg=PA23, de Ralph Waldo Emerson - Publicado por Forgotten Books, 1906 ISBN 1605069744, 9781605069746 - 557 páginas
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Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Contexto: Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 261
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