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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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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 art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

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An index is a great leveller.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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