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" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "

" The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. "

" If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? "

" One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up. "

" Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. "

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" Happiness can exist only in acceptance. "

" War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "

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" There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. "

" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

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" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. "

" He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. "

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" I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. "

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