We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

Quote by Will Durant

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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a...

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a...

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you...

Continue to express your dissent and your needs, but remember to remain civilized, for you...

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken...

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken...

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the...

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the...

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not...

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not...

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it; it remained...

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till Bloody Mary frowned upon it; it remained...

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will...

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or...

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or...

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.