To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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