I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished...
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John Rawls
Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have...
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Criss Jami
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.
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Genereux Philip
I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.
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Petek Kabakci
More Quotes By Norman Mailer
Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207
