Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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