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When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

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The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

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