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"After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced."
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"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
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"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."
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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."
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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
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"We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it."
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"The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors."
Love
"This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern."
Heart
"Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution."
Anger
"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
People
"All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away."
Society
"The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now."
Change
"The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions."
Life
"The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out."
Act
"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears."
Action
"Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."
Justice
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