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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.
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Music and religion are as intimately related as poetry and love the deepest emotions require for their civilized expression the most emotional of arts.
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The future never just happened. It was created.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
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Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.
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Liberty is a luxury of security the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
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A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
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History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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As knowledge grew, fear decreased men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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