Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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