The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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