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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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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 word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

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In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

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Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

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

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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Morality is not respectability.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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