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One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead.
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is read more
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is never to let them find out.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task read more
The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring read more
But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition .
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is read more
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.
