"Formerly, leaders of states practiced realism, but did not honor it... With them morality was violated, but moral notions remained intact. ... The modern governor, owing to the fact that he addresses crowds, is compelled to be a moralist, and to present his acts as bound up with a system of morality."

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Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, pp. 110-111, 1927.

Julien Benda

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“Only the man who disciplines himself strictly can stand for long the terrific pace of modern war.”
“My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.”
“Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.”

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“I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.”

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“The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.”
“Golf is golf. You hit the ball, you go find it. Then you hit it again.”
“People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.”

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