There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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