It is possible that the ...

It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.
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 Richard Hofstadter

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To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption.
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 Richard Hofstadter
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit, namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels.
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One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged.
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 Richard Hofstadter