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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.

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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

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