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Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.


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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.



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A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.



Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.



Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.



If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.



There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.



Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?



To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.



The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.



It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.





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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

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