Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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