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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined…
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The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or…
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One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of…
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller…
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...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered,…
— Thomas Mann
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The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters…
— Henry Louis Mencken
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