"The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith."
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"Oh my God, does art engender humanity? It awakens your humanity. But humanity has nothing to do with political theory. Political theory is in the interests of one group of humanity, or one ideal for humanity. But humanity-my heavens, that's what proper art renders. We have a paradox. Going into the deepest aspects of inner space connects you with something that is the most vital for the outer realm."
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"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
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"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."
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"A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man."
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"The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election."
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"Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules."
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"I don't subscribe to relativism, whether it's in political philosophy, foreign policy or in life."
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"The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was."
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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."
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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
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"Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure."
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"History is past politics, and politics is present history."
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"By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little."
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"Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident."
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"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
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"The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate."
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"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."
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"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."
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