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The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.
The mass of men seldom move together without an emotional incentive.
Sales may lead to advertising as much as advertising leads to sales.
People know what they want because they know what other people want.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.
Teachers need to teach the subject rather than to teach the textbook.
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!
Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of
The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.
Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.
The immediate cause of World War III is the military preparation of it.
Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.
Country music historically has been sort of middle-aged people's music.
Buy me and you will overcome the anxieties I have just reminded you of.
If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.
There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Art is the social antithesis of society, not directly deducible from it.
Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.
If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth.
No harm comes to man from outside alone: dumbness is the objective spirit.
The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.
If a person perceives a situation as real, it is real in its consequences.
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
To overcome the academic prose you have first to overcome the academic pose.
The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.
democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.
All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.
I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.
A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun.
I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.