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Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?

Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
– Barbara W Tuchman

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  3. Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government. – Barbara W Tuchman
  4. That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man’s occasional triumphs over medicine. – Barbara W Tuchman
  5. Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one. – Nikos Kazantzakis
  6. Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one. – Nikos Kazantzakis
  7. That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do. – Mark Twain
  8. Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. – Karl Marx
  9. I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand
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  13. Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. – Dave Hickey
  14. …the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. – Aleister Crowley
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  18. House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself. – Barbara W Tuchman
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  21. Duty was not untinged by ambition. – Barbara W Tuchman
  22. Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors. – Barbara W Tuchman
  23. The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke – Barbara W Tuchman
  24. He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within. – Barbara W Tuchman
  25. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara W Tuchman
  26. How much does a man’s effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII – Barbara W Tuchman
  27. No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society. – Barbara W Tuchman
  28. Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come. – Barbara W Tuchman
  29. Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age. – Barbara W Tuchman
  30. The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony. – Barbara W Tuchman
  31. All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre. – Barbara W Tuchman
  32. Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions. – Barbara W Tuchman
  33. Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category. – Barbara W Tuchman
  34. Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside. – Barbara W Tuchman
  35. Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher – Barbara W Tuchman
  36. His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw – Barbara W Tuchman
  37. He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense. – Barbara W Tuchman
  38. England’s traditional tolerance was outraged at last. – Barbara W Tuchman
  39. The affair made men feel larger than life. – Barbara W Tuchman
  40. The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists. – Barbara W Tuchman

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