The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

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People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

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