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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization
"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil
"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason
"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism
"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust
"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
Faith
"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith
"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."
Truth
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