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"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform."
Vision
"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life."
Life
"The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light."
Genius
"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion."
Life
"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning."
Work
"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war."
Peace
"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence."
Language
"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent."
Man
"The age of the book is almost gone."
Age
"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness."
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