Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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