Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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