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> [It is an ancient belief, going back to classical antiquity, that specialization of any kind is illiberal in a freeman. A man willing to bury himself in the details of some small endeavor has been considered lost to these larger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/it-is-an-ancient-belief-going-back-to-classical-antiquity-that/)

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## More by Richard M. Weaver

> [Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/drill-in-exact-translation-is-an-excellent-way-of-disposing-the-mind/)

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> [Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/piety-is-a-discipline-of-the-will-through-respect-it-admits-the-right/)

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> [The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/the-most-important-thing-about-the-gentleman-was-that-he-was-an/)

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> [The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/the-member-of-a-culture-purposely-avoids-the-relationship-of-intimacy/)

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> [“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/man-is-constantly-being-assured-today-that-he-has-more-power-than/)

[Richard M. Weaver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-m-weaver/)

> [Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/man-is-constantly-being-assured-that-he-has-more-power-than-ever/)

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> [The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/the-remark-has-been-made-that-in-the-civil-war-the-north-reaped-the/)

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> [No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/no-one-can-take-culture-seriously-if-he-believes-that-it-is-only-the/)

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> [“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/it-will-be-found-that-every-attack-upon-religion-or-upon/)

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> [ Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. \[John Crowe\] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/progress-never-defines-its-ultimate-objective-but-thrusts-its-victims/)

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> [Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/until-the-world-perceives-that-good-cannot-be-applied-to-a-thing/)

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> [Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/any-utterance-is-a-major-assumption-of-responsibility-and-the/)

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> [ A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he \[Hibben\] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/a-prejudice-may-be-an-unreasoned-judgment-he-hibben-pointed-out-but/)

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> [That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/that-it-does-not-matter-what-a-man-believes-is-a-statement-heard-on/)

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> [The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-m-weaver/the-most-likely-way-to-kill-a-tradition-is-to-over-formalize-it-which/)

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