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"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
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"In the company of ignorance, be silent...or join the suffering."
"If you are right, no one will bother you in this world. If you do not hurt anyone in this world, or you have no intention of hurting anyone, then no one can hurt you."
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"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
"Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon."
"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration."
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
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