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"Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise."

Content, Fidelity, Loyalty, Mind

"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."

Age, Authority

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."

Thought, Thoughts, Thinking

"The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it."

Happiness, Men, Desire, End

"The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide."

Truth, Efficiency, Lying, Trouble

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."

Forgiveness, Action, Freedom, Key

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

Conservative, Day, Revolution, Radical

"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."

Revolution, Reputation, Violence

"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

Authority, Day, Defiance, May

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error."

Leadership, Leader, Error

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"For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Act,

"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

Act, Contemplation, Enjoyment, May

"The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis."

Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher

Act,

"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

Act, Consciousness, Passion

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

Hannah Arendt, German Historian

Act, Tyranny

"Criticize the act, not the person."

Mary Kay Ash, American Businessman

Act,

"I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it."

Frank Auerbach, German Artist

Act, Day, Order

"The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs."

Joe Baca, American Politician

Act, Crisis, Energy, Help

"He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling."

Max Baer, American Athlete

Act,

"NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty."

Michael Badnarik, American Politician

Act, Liberty, Trade