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At the center of his analysis was the insistence that modern man, “like Macbeth,” had made an evil decision to trade allegiance to transcendent principles for present gain.
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
He sees people in such a manner that they crave nearness to him.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
At the close of Russell’s 1938 speech against lynching legislation, Borah of Idaho walked over to him and congratulated him—and then took the floor himself to echo Russell’s argument that the bill was a violation of states’ rights. (Whereupon Russell rose in his turn to say, “The people of the South will ever revere the name of William E. Borah.”)
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the way he would see himself,
Russell D. Roberts • Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
Only after many struggles of thought does the individual assert his right as a moral being. In early ages he is not ONE, but one of many, the citizen of a State which is prior to him; and he has no notion of good or evil apart from the law of his country or the creed of his church. And to this type he is constantly tending to revert, whenever the i
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Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions (Religion and Social Transformation Book 5)
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Percy Shelley in “A Defense of Poetry,”