Quotes with perfectibility

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• Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical patriarchy their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.

  Vamps and Tramps (1994)

  Camille Paglia
  American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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• We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

  Dr. Jerome Brunner
   
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• I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active -not more happy -nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• perfectibility
• simplistically
• ambiguities
• educability
• appreciable
• addressed

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