Consistent Practice Quotes by Richard Hofstadter

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Richard Hofstadter has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to…
• It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
• To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury....
• If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are…
• A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed…
• The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the…
• It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of…
• Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

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