“That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplifications of our culture.”
Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XII, Section 1, p. 142
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Source: Culture and Anarchy (1869), Ch. I, Sweetness and Light
Context: The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Sweet Morality (p. 222)
Source: The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)
“Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.”
Young India (2 March 1922)
1920s
“To illude: one of the most shameful behaviors that can belong to the human being.”
Original: (it) Illudere: uno dei comportamenti più vergognosi che possano appartenere all'essere umano.
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Liberty University convocation, , quoted in * 2007-12-06
Huckabee: God Wants Me to Be President
James Joyner
Outside the Beltway
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asked what he attributed his surge in the polls to
“Respect is one of the most elegant and cultural choices a human being can make.”
Original: (it) Il rispetto è una delle scelte più eleganti e culturali che un essere umano possa fare.
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