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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs,…
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime…
- The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
- To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities . . . than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and…
- No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing…
- The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally…
- What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing
- The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in…
- At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried…
- What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will…
- The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and…
- The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the…
- Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are…
- I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs…
- It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberatedfrom the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle