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Charles de Secondat

"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."

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"Society is the union of men and not the men themselves."

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"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

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"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."

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"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

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"A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."

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"What I think we can do is help individuals understand the church teaching, but also maybe help the church understand the viewpoint of lay men and women about what they want in regard to priests, or how do they want the hierarchy to deal with them?"

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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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"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

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"I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."

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"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

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"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

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"Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us."
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"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."
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"The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles."
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"You have to study a great deal to know a little."
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"There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked."
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"Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature."
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"Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations."
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"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."
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"When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner."
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"They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?"
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