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Next to bread and woman, in the hierarchy of desire, comes eternal salvation; when the stomach is satisfied, and lust is spent, man spares a little time for God.

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It is not always a boon that our enemies should write a book.

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Every generation is stirred by a kindred vision of an international moral order superior to the jungle ethics of sovereign states.

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War and democracy are enemies.

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We are in danger of exaggerating the cruelty of the past for the same reason that we magnify the crime and immorality of the present—because cruelty is interesting by its very rarity.

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Honesty is the best policy, but it must be practiced with discrimination.

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The difficulties of freedom multiply with the area it embraces.

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One can never tell in what tense man's gratitude is felt.

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Plato concluded to a suppression of all free reasoning, a conviction that philosophy must be destroyed in order that man may live. He himself would have been the first victim of his Utopias.

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Modern theory lives by nibbling at tradition.

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The discussion of [Zeno's] paradoxes has gone on from Plato to Bertrand Russell, and may continue as long as words are mistaken for things.

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Individuals became civilized when they were made secure by membership in an effectively protective communal group; states will become civilized when they are made secure by loyal membership in an effectively protective federated group.

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The ardor that destroys is seldom mated with the patience that builds.

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The Roman emperors themselves were the chief victims of their power. 7 of these 10 met a violent end; nearly all of them were unhappy, surrounded by conspiracy, dishonesty, and intrigue, trying to govern a world from the anarchy of home.

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The emperor who condemned him died a coward's death, and soon nothing survived of his inordinate works. But from the defeated Paul came the theological structure of Christianity, as from Peter the astonishing organization of the Church.

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Institutions and beliefs are the offspring of human needs, and understanding must be in terms of these necessities.

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Every extended frontier of empire or knowledge opens up new problems.

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Civilization is rural in base but urban in form; men must gather in cities to provide for one another audiences and stimuli.

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In all intellectual ages education stresses knowledge more than character, and produces masses of half-educated people who, uprooted from labor and the land, move about in unplaced discontent like loosened cargo in the ship of state.

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In every epoch something is decaying and something is growing.

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