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Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed but must not be allowed to become necessary.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

Those who love the young best stay young longer.

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

Every major industrial society believes it has a serious youth problem.

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

In a world as empirical as ours, a youngster who does not know what he is good at will not be sure what he is good for.

Most Americans would say that they disapproved of violence. But what they really mean is that they believe it should be the monopoly of the state.

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

If a people have no word for something, either it does not matter to them or it matters too much to talk about.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.