The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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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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