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I took it as my starting point that the willful infliction of pain is an unconditional evil and tried to develop a liberal theory of politics from that ground up.

— Judith N. Shklar A Life of Learning (1989)

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The idea of joining a movement and submitting to a collective belief system strikes me as a betrayal of intellectual values.

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Apart from the early establishment of representative democracy and the persistence of slavery, which do give it a special character, American political thought is just an integral part of modern history as a whole.

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I certainly prefer frank and independent students to ingratiating and flattering ones... And I fear that the students who so readily attach themselves to idols lose their education along with their independence.

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