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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.

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As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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

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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

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