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However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.
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I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
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My works are an imitation of my own past and present.
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Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
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1 jast think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.
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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
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A lot of times, if you stay in the present and focus on getting the most out of yourself today, then things work out the way they're supposed to.
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.
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A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Source: In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism, -
A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
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