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• Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
• In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
• Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
• There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
• The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
• It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
• Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
• Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
• Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
• When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
• The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

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