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Gertrude Himmelfarb
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“... absolute liberty may also corrupt absolutely.”
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“In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good ...”
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“Without will, without individuals, there are no heroes. But neither are there villains. And the absence of villains is as prostrating, as soul-destroying, as the absence of heroes.”
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“The 'real movement' of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”
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“... absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.”
Gertrude Himmelfarb, U.S. historian, philosopher
(1922)
Also known as Bea Kristol.