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- The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Circle, 1921
- We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepare to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- People often say that this person is or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
- Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
- Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
- During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), The Spirit of Laws, 1748
- Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Civil Disobedience, 1849
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