When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
From Max Lerner
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.
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