Peaceful Purposes Quotes by Ralph Barton Perry

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• I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
• Ignorance deprives people of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. It is impossible to choose to do what…
• A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
• Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force…
• What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind…
• The fundamental idea of modern capitalism is not the right of the individual to possess and enjoy what he has earned, but…
• Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name…
• Puritanism prolonged in America the medieval Christian view of the world and of human destiny. It taught men to distrust their natural…

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