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Emile Durkheim:

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

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Martin Sheen, as President Bartlett:

I’m the President of the United States, not the president of the people who agree with me.

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Caroline Graham:

Idealists are never innocent. They cause half the trouble that’s going.

Graham, Caroline, Death in Disguise (New York: Felony and Mayhem Press, 2007) p. 333>

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Kate Duchêne, in the voice of Miss Constance Hardbroom:

. . . highwaymen, thieves, and rogues are usually to be found among the male of the species.

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Barack Obama:

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer:

Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

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Dick Cavett:

But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.:

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

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Isocrates:

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

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Jeremy Bentham:

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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Clarence Darrow:

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.

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Ivan Illich:

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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David Ferguson:

Elect a clown. Get a circus.

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Blaise Pascal:

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer:

Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

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Ruth J. Simmons:

It’s very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

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Carl Hiaasen:

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

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Brian Vaszily:

The number one rule of today’s marketing – the key secret of those who seek to control your beliefs and habits in order to take your money, your votes, your time or whatever else it is they desire from you – is to always keep in mind that nobody really believes they can be manipulated.

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Bernardo Dovizi:

It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.

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Pindar:

War is sweet to them that know it not.

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