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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first…

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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In…
Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by…
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the…
Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any…
Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a…
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as…
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes…
What I am asserting is that in this particular epoch a conjunction of historical circumstances has led to the rise of an…
The principal cause of war is war itself.
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store…

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Statistics are like women; mirrors of purest virtue and truth, or like whores to use as one pleases. — Theodor Billroth
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what… — Andre Malraux
There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts as one… — Fidel Castro
Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long… — Walker Percy
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a… — Isak Dinesen
...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every… — Henry James
The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from… — Robert M. Pirsig
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is… — Walker Percy
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the… — Hugo Black
The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. — William Hazlitt
It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because… — George Santayana
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. — Stendhal

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