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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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"Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it."
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"A sense of solidarity among fifteen-to-thirty-year-olds would be a menace to civilized society even in the best of times."
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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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"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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"An average woman is in this superior to an average man-that she never instigates, only responds."
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"Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence is not a primitive, irrational urge, nor is it a "pathology" except in the metaphorical sense of a condition that everyone would like to eliminate. Instead, it is a near-inevitable outcome of the dynamics of self-interested, rational social organisms."
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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
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"People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other."
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"I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
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"Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
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"Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry."
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"I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men."
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"Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it."
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"As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become."
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."
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"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
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"The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
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