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This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed.

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Avoiding offense means that we don’t accept each other as equals.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.