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“The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.”
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“The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.”
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“I'm a pioneer, I'm an explorer, I'm a human, and I'm coming. I'm animated, I'm alive, my heart's big, it's got hot blood going through it fast. I like to fight, too! I like to eat! I like to have children! I'm here! I've got a life force: This is a human, this is what we look like, this is what we act like, this what everybody was like before us, this is what I am, I'm a throwback. I'm here! I've got the fire of human liberty! I'm setting fires everywhere, and humans are turning on everywhere.”
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“Utopia is not under the slightest obligation to produce results: its sole function is to allow its devotees to condemn what exists in the name of what does not.”
― Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era
― Last Exit to Utopia: The Survival of Socialism in a Post-Soviet Era
“We make a great mistake, sir, when we suppose that all people are capable of self-government. We are anxious to force free government on all; and I see that it has been urged in a very respectable quarter, that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty over all the world, and especially over this continent. It is a great mistake. None but people advanced to a very high state of moral and intellectual improvement are capable, in a civilized state, of maintaining free government; and amongst those who are so purified, very few, indeed, have had the good fortune of forming a constitution capable of endurance.”
― Speech of Mr Calhoun, of S. Carolina, on the Bill to Provide for the Collection of Duties on Imports
― Speech of Mr Calhoun, of S. Carolina, on the Bill to Provide for the Collection of Duties on Imports
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