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| This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. |
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| True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective |
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| Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later. . ." |
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| Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. |
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| We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. |
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| We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. |
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| We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves. |
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| What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee. |
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| What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. |
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| When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic. . . |
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| When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. |
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| When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. |
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| Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. |
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| Where all think alike, no one thinks very much |
| Thinking |
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| Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. |
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| While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important |
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| You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. |
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| You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty. |
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