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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at…
— Alfred Binet
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Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful…
— Bernard DeVoto
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more…
— William James
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We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory;…
— Lewis Mumford
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Psychic automatism in its pure state, by which one proposes to express -- verbally, by means of the written word, or in…
— Andre Breton
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Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way,…
— Andre Breton
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Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its…
— Eric Hoffer
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