To understand is not only to pardon but in the end to love.
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
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Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate. . .
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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