Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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 family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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