"Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration."

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Source : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.88, Courier Corporation

G. D. H. Cole

#Restoration Quotes #May Quotes #Morality Quotes

“Didacticism is the death of art.”
“When all else fails there's always delusion.”
“All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!”
“In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.”
“Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.”
“Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.”

Source : "George Perle, a Composer and Theorist, Dies at 93" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2009.
“Martial arts is not about picking your fights and picking how things go; it's about adapting to the how things are.”
“The Covenant of the League of Nations had envisaged sponsoring only the protection of certain categories of men: national minorities and populations of territories controlled by other countries.”

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