Quotes 481 till 491 of 491.
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Amnesty: The state’s magnaminity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
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If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
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Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.
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The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.
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The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.
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The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.
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To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery - even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness - is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.
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