"He was acting on a reason other than the avoidance of pain. The sentiment was loyalty, and it felt glorious."

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"Marxists have always displayed a doctrinaire and opinionated mindset of moral superiority. To Marxists and Leninists, the unaligned, such as Social Democrats, German Nazis, Italian Fascists, or any ot…"

— L. K. Samuels

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"The only reason from beginning to end is that our foreign office is anti-German and that the Admiralty was anxious to seize any opportunity for using the Navy in battle practice. ... Never did we arm …"

— Ramsay MacDonald

Politics1866–1937

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"Science, according to science, ought to be the most important attribute of human beings."

— Harvey Mansfield

Politics1932

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"I still think its probably the most evil of all pursuits. ... the thing is when you're getting shot at you don't think so much about who's right and who's wrong or who's good and who's and bad ... one…"

— James Jones

Literature1772–1848

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