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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and…

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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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.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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