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Alberto Moravia:

When you aren’t sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that’s the basic principle of every faith.

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I. F. Stone:

Rich people march on Washington every day.

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Albert Camus:

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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Frangela, talking about Elon Musk, Bill Maher, and their ilk:

He’s not an advocate of free speech. He’s an advocate of having the audience being forced to listen to him.

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Nancy Astor:

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

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Robert Bakker:

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn’t because it only makes them mad.

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J. K. Simmons:

I’ve had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I’m disdainful of blind authority.

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Jeff Corey, in the voice of Judge Hirsch:

This is a court of law, Judge Stone. This is not a place for truth. This is a place for lies. Everybody who comes here lies.

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Otto von Bismarck:

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

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Jessica Mitford:

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

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Virginia Woolf:

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Francis Bacon:

He that defers his charity ’till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man’s, than of his own.

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George Orwell:

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

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Samuel Palmer:

The “rights of man” are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.

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Lisa Ling:

We live in a culture where we’re bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

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Jacques Barzun:

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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Leslie Weatherhead:

Why do men hug words to their hearts after the living truth has long since fled from them?

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John Larroquette, in the voice of Dan Fielding:

If you can’t laugh at other people, who can you laugh at?

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Elizabeth Gould Davis:

Men insist that they don’t mind women succeeding so long as they retain their “femininity”. Yet the qualities that men consider “feminine” timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement — are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

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Dian Fossey:

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

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