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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils.…
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen…
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human…
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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the…
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody…
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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Violence is the ultimate human degradation.
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Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves…
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At your most daring moments you believe that what is going on is the ultimate human work the shaping of a soul.…
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The…
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Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human…
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Love becomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.
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