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— Willard Gaylin"Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential."
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I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.
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There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.
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