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He Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
- When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance.…
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes…
- The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs…
- The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of…
- The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is…
- The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle