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«Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
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Change,
Conservative,
Danger,
Elderly,
Future
| Keywords:
conservatism, justification, painful, reluctant
«The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
conservative, engaged, exercises, justification, modern philosophy, moral philosophy, oldest, selfishness, The Search
«What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists -- whatever else they might be -- might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States . . .»
Author: William Blum
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grounds, hypocrisy, immediate, justification, political leader, retaliation, slip, social action, social injustice, terrorism, terrorists
«To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
accepting, hardship, justification
«Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification»
«We all felt on top of the world. It was a justification for the sacrifices which had been made by our people since the arrival of whites in this country in 1652.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
arrival, arrivals, justification, sacrifices, The Arrival, whites
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