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The Story of Civilization (1931)
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.
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I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Will Durant
Born:
November 5, 1885
Died:
November 7, 1981
(aged 96)
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