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- A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work…
- A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.
- Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And…
- If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the…
- All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we…
- Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is…
- I wish we had all been born birds instead.
- I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.
- It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it…
- Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.
- The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from…
- A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and…
- During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this…
- Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
- I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their…
- The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to…
- No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by.…
- Much of the blame is the malarkey that artists have created to glorify war, which as we all know, is nonsense, and a good deal…
- We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.
- What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?
- Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't…
- I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle