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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

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Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

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If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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The criminal law is no use to decent people.

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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

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Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

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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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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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