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If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

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We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.

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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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