All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also. - Voltaire - Quotesmemo.com

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The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful. "

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Voltaire

All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.

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If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

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The hallmark of a free society is that I may totally disapprove of what you say, but I'll defend your right to say it until I die.

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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The essence of kitsch is the confusion of ethical and esthetic categories; kitsch wants to produce not the "good" but the "beautiful. "

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Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.

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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.

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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.

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