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Felix Adler:

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

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Kenneth Clarke:

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

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Chris Potter, in the voice of Det. Sgt. Tom Ryan:

We don’t always get happy endings in real life. That’s why people go to the movies.

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George Orwell:

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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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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James A. Garfield:

If any theories or opinions of mine can be damaged by facts, so much the worse for my theories.

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Jeff Rich:

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

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Anthony Trollope:

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

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Charlie Brill, in the voice of Capt. Harry Lipschitz:

A closed mind is like a closed door. It leads nowhere until it’s opened.

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Alfred Nobel:

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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Cathy Ladman:

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

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Morgan Freeman:

The search for truth is never over and the survival of truth is never assured. We have to choose – do we stand with those who wish to suppress the truth or stand with those who seek it.

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George Santayana:

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

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Meles Zenawi:

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

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Pindar:

War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach.

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Ross Martin, in the voice of Andamo:

With my luck, if my ship ever came in, there’s be a dock strike.

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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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Barry Goldwater:

Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.

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Tom Baker:

Of course, for a lot of people, death was a welcome change. Grinding poverty takes the edge off most things, including life.

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Jesse Jackson:

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven’t melted.

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