Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
WILL DURANTIf man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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