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The obsessions of others embarrass and repel because they seem to dehumanize, to make the obsessed one robotic and alien and unavailable.

Marx's once scandalous thesis that governments are simple business agents for international capital is today an obvious fact

An opinion is not to be respected simply because somebody holds it. More or less any obnoxious viewpoint one can think up is probably held by somebody somewhere. There are right-wing Afrikaners who believe that Nelson Mandela was evil.

Once thought is pulled up short by a yearning that can only be known existentially, it is inevitable that conceptual discourse should give way to the birth of literature...

We do not know whether Melville's work is of universal interest because we have not reached the end of history yet, despite the best efforts of some of our political leaders.

Americans come out of the comparison rather better. They may overdo emotion, but they are not fearful of it. A surplus of feeling has rarely done as much damage as a deficiency of it.

O Manifesto comunista, afinal, propõe-se a ser um item de propaganda política, e como tal é cheio de floreios retóricos

Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.

The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

Wizard's Fourth Rule There is magic in sincere forgiveness; in the forgiveness you give, but more so in the forgiveness you receive.

But this was no ordinary chicken. This chicken was evil manifest.

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The Rule Unspoken, the Rule Unwritten, The rule from the beginning of time.

The only sovereign we could allow to rule us is reason.

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.

Kahlan stood quietly in the shadows, watching, as evil knocked softly on the door.

He slipped the baldric over his head, laying the leather across his shoulder and the scabbard at his hip. Knowing the weapon a little more intimately, now, he had a new respect for it.

He is taming chipmunks." – Cara

Truth is hard to sell; it gives no sense of purpose. It is simply truth.

If you regain your senses, come see me, I will teach you how." - Cara

Please meet Magda Searus, the first Confessor.

His word alone stood between Kahlan and oblivion.

The trickster, the Mother Confessor said. I told you that was our name for him»

Darken Rahl, son of Panis Rahl, has put the three boxes of Orden in play," Kahlan said simply. "I have come in search of the great wizard.

The Spiritist is said to be a dangerous woman.