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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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I want to be all used up when I die.

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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