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Hermann Hess:

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

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Robert Staughton Lynd:

Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

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Adam Smith:

Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

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Livy:

Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

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Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

The real victims of war are people who live at ground zero, cannon fodder for failed leaders.

Aside:

In normal times, whatever they are, I like would not have cited this, but it seemed somehow quite a propos.

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Joyce Carol Oates:

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

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Michelle Alexander:

The political strategy of divide, demonize and conquer has worked for centuries in the United States — since the days of slavery — to keep poor and working people angry at (and fearful of) one another rather than uniting to challenge unjust political and economic systems.

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Paul Krugman:

. . . you can shop online and find whatever you’re looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren’t looking for.

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Blake Edwards:

It’s been my experience that every time I think I know where it’s at, it’s usually somewhere else.

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Bob Cesca:

In the social media age, everything is all about attention.

For example.

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Pierre Charron:

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

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Blaise Pascal:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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Helmut Kohl:

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

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Oriana Fallaci:

Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called “objectivity.” Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

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Barbara Tuchman:

History is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

In times of war, both armies claim God’s on their side. During the Crusades, they killed in the name of Christ. The Jihad, the Intifada. It’s just mass murder sanctioned with prayers.

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A. P. Herbert:

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

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Isaac Asimov:

There has never been any custom, however useless it may become with changing conditions, that isn’t clung to desperately simply because it is something old and familiar.

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Jane Wagner:

It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

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Sharan Burrow:

Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act.

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