"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."

Liberal, Temperament

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"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."

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"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."

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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."

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"American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon."

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"A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him."

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"If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone."

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"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."

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"And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically."

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"People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself."

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"Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word."

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"My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right."

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"There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence."

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