The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less....Hannah Arendt
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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