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Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. But even Capitalist cynicism will admit that however unconscionable we may be when our own interests are affected, we can be most indignantly virtuous at the expense of others.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

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The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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