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It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

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For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

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Where tax is solidarity, the national sport is tax evasion.

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In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.

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What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

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Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

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The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

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There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.

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It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

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Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

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Political abstractions can disguise or change the meaning of the most elementary realities.

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There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic.

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Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.

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Frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness—a most unattractive combination.

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Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

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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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The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance.

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The main difference between working in an NHS hospital in Britain and a prison is that prison is much safer.

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Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

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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.

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For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

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In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

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In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

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We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

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

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