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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
— Roger Scruton
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Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work.…
— Elaine Paige
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
— Carla Bruni
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I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children.…
— Elie Wiesel
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But, like peace, comfort didn't come from hiding away or running away. Comfort first demanded courage.
— Louise Penny
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Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace,…
— Alcee Hastings
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Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
— Elie Wiesel
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I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else…
— Banksy
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not…
— C.S. Lewis
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We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
— Safak Pavey
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