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"It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly."
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"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
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"Freud was so imbued with the spirit of his culture that he could not go beyond certain limits which were set by it. These very limits became limitations for his understanding even of the sick individual, they handicapped his understanding of the normal individual and of the irrational phenomena operating in social life."
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"Man is a social animal."
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"It's the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don't say a word, they don't hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly."
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"An average woman is in this superior to an average man-that she never instigates, only responds."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
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"The ambiance of every environment in a country is the value system of the given nation. It is that culture that influences how citizens of a nation react, respond and behave among themselves in regards to politics, commerce, family and social life."
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"We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals, following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type."
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"Every configuration of people is an entirely new universe unto itself."
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"The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
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"Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world."
War
"If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble."
Literature
"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."
Politics
"Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away."
Man
"If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat."
Victory
"One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life."
Life
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
Experience
"One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day."
Religion
"Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."
Philosophy
"Certain details, somewhat curtailed, live in my memory. But I don't see anything anymore: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction."
Memory
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