“ Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. ”
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“ The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ”
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“ The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ”
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“ It is the insertion of man with his limited life span that transforms the continuously flowing stream of sheer change… into time as we know it. ”
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“ I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help. ”
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“ When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. ”
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“ The most striking difference between ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality ”
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“ The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. ”
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“ The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ”
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“ The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ”
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“ No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. ”
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“ When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. ”
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“ It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. ”
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“ Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ”
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“ No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. ”
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“ The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. ”
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“ As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one… ”
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“ Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. ”
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“ As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one… ”
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“ Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings. ”
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“ Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods — moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former — but no opinion. ”
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“ Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. ”
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“ To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. ”
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“ Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. ”
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“ In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ”
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