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"Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor."
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"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."

"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."

"Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child."

"A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself."
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"Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists."

"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."

"Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig."

"Once a person has killed other people on behalf of an ideology, he becomes rather devoted to it."

"Slogans rarely convince the unconvinced. However, they do rally the troops already on your side."

"Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf."
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