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The ultimate end of human acts...

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

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Action without a name, a who a...

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

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The chief qualification of a m...

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.

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These are the fifties, you kno...

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

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The defiance of established au...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

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Where all are guilty, no one i...

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

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Man cannot be free if he does ...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

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Our tradition of political tho...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

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We have almost succeeded in le...

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

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It is in the very nature of th...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

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No punishment has ever possess...

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

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One of the greatest advantages...

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

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Love, by its very nature, is u...

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.

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I'm more than ever of the opin...

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.

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Equality...is the result of hu...

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

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Fear is an emotion indispensab...

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

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Politically speaking, tribal n...

Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

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When evil is allowed to compet...

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

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Totalitarianism is never conte...

Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.

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Every thought is an afterthoug...

Every thought is an afterthought.

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