"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason."
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"Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice."
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"[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it."
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"The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way."
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"God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return."
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"You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination."
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"He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others."
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"Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him."
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"Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn."
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"He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand."
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"I don't know if I can convey the postman as I feel him... Unfortunately he cannot pose, and a painting demands an intelligent model."
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"There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality."
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"The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger."
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"I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures."
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"Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith."
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"Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly."
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"When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed."
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"The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill."
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"Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth."
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"One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists."
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