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Quotes from Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians — Gertrude Himmelfarb

1922–2019 United States

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The desire to transcend the human condition is, in most religious traditions, an invitation to heresy. In politics it is an invitation to tyranny, as we seek a perfection that inevitably eludes us and as we redouble our efforts to attain the unattainable.

Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians (1986)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gertrude Himmelfarb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.