• Government and Politics

  But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

  3.0 · 32 votes · 45 reads

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• Time

  Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

  3.5 · 39 votes · 26 reads

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• Society

  Christianity has operated with an unmitigated arrogance and cruelty, necessarily, since a religion ordinarily imposes on those who have discovered the true faith the spiritual duty of liberating the infidels.

  3.9 · 59 votes · 101 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

  3.7 · 5 votes · 184 reads

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• Virtues

  Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

  4.9 · 31 votes · 147 reads

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• Virtues

  Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

  3.2 · 49 votes · 67 reads

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• Feelings

  Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  4.0 · 64 votes · 145 reads

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• Society

  If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

  3.5 · 57 votes · 118 reads

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• Various

  It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reali

  3.4 · 40 votes · 185 reads

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• Art and Culture

  It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

  3.2 · 43 votes · 158 reads

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• Society

  Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

  3.1 · 62 votes · 183 reads

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• Society

  Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  3.3 · 8 votes · 165 reads

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• Society

  People can cry much easier than they can change.

  3.9 · 38 votes · 84 reads

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• Nature

  Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the f

  3.5 · 64 votes · 200 reads

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• Defects

  Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

  3.6 · 64 votes · 7 reads

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• Feelings

  Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

  3.6 · 39 votes · 41 reads

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• Defects

  The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

  3.2 · 23 votes · 152 reads

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• Time

  The future is... black.

  4.2 · 40 votes · 109 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The paradox of education is precisely this: that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

  4.4 · 30 votes · 70 reads

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• Nature

  The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

  3.5 · 52 votes · 75 reads

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• Art and Culture

  The responsibility of a Writeris to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

  3.3 · 26 votes · 147 reads

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• Feelings

  There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

  3.0 · 12 votes · 100 reads

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• Time

  There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

  4.9 · 45 votes · 1 reads

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• Time

  There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

  4.3 · 52 votes · 96 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

  4.1 · 37 votes · 9 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

  4.2 · 20 votes · 168 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

  4.7 · 7 votes · 130 reads

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• Art and Culture

  When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

  3.1 · 48 votes · 112 reads

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• Society

  Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that thes

  3.8 · 45 votes · 99 reads

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• Feelings

  You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

  3.9 · 15 votes · 90 reads

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• Education3 of their quotes
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