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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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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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Every man deserves to be judged in the context of his times.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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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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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

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

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

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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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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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