What for the others are necessities and conditions of life are death to us.
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.”
Source: Cours de linguistique générale (1916), p. 9
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“Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.”
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Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: Age may have one side, but assuredly Youth has the other. There is nothing more certain than that both are right, except perhaps that both are wrong. Let them agree to differ; for who knows but what agreeing to differ may not be a form of agreement rather than a form of difference?
Source: Superiority and Subordination as Subject-matter of Sociology (1896), p. 169