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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

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The harder I work the more I live.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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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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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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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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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

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