Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has never "heard of." — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience… Liberalism does not advocate change… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what one has… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural inclinations as… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his filial gratitude. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share
