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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but…
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it…
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state…
— Allan Bloom
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The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all…
— Chris Ware
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a…
— George Orwell
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In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human…
— Murray Bookchin
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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
— George Orwell
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and…
— William Howard Taft
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The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle…
— Leon Trotsky
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and…
— William Howard Taft
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