Salvador De Madariaga Quotes

#1. Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

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#2. Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.

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#3. Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

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#4. Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

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#5. Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.

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#6. Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

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#7. The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting.

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#8. He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

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#9. Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.

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#10. Love has its roots in sex, but its foliage and flowers are in the pure light of spirit.

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#11. The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

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#12. To-day, in more than half of Europe, man is at the mercy of the police; in 1900 even the most conservative and reactionary Prussian Junker would have been unable to imagine, let alone approve, that a citizen could be arrested and kept in prision at the pleasure of the Government.

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#13. No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.

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#14. The ideal holiday for the truly active man is one doing nothing in beautiful surroundings ... and the ideal exercise for this best form of leisure is the old, natural, spontaneous movement of the body
the walk.

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#15. He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide.

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#16. The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys.

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#17. The best pastimes for a true enjoyer of leisure who has to stay at home ... : reading by the fireside ... Listening to music.

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#18. A general must be shot or befriended - but never hurt.

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#19. Circumstances are the seeds of literature.

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#20. The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.

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#21. My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.

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