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In a free society, freedom will frequently be used badly. Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to do good or evil, to act nobly or basely. But if freedom brings out the worst in people, it also brings out the best.

— Dinesh D'Souza

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Strictly speaking, relativism does not permit social progress, because the new culture is by definition no better than the one it replaced.

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Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed—only when it is chosen.

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Racism originated not in ignorance and fear but as part of an enlightened enterprise of intellectual discovery.

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