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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.…
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen…
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human…
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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the…
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
— James Anthony Froude
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The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is…
— Isaiah Berlin
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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
— Oscar Wilde
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Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a…
— Mark Twain
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The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of…
— H.G. Wells
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Old Testament is tribal in its provinciality; its god is a local god, and its village police and sanitary regulations are…
— John Macy
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There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins…
— H.G. Wells
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