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Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.
Social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty.
Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.
The bourgeois ... is tolerant. His love for people as they are stems from his hatred of what they might be.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.
Advertisements ordinarily work their wonders, to the extent that they work at all, on an inattentive public.
It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.
We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.
To persuade is more trouble than to dominate, and the powerful seldom take this trouble if they can avoid it.
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.
The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Everything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.
That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.
In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age.
It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
In all advanced industrial societies, education has become the single most important vehicle of upward mobility.
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.
The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.
Every interpretation is but an introduction to another interpretation, and that is how Talmud pages are printed.
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.
As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.
Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.
You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.
The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.
Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.