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"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds."
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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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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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"There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do."
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"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do."
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."
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"Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs."
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"The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor."
Freedom
"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
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"The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds."
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"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."
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"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."
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"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."
Values
"All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate."
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