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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

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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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Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

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The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.

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The philosopher is Nature's pilot.

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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.

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Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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