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- From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not… Any
- Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home;… Clean
- There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages:… Age
- [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get… Answers
- Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses… Abnormal
- The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is… All
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little… Advantage
- You can't have the family farm without the family. Economic
- The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. Art
- Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder. Alike
- The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist. Art
- And all over the world, the old literature, the popular literature, is the same. It consists of very dignified sorrow and very undignified fun. Its… All
- The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not… Aim
- A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who… Among
- I do not know much about Mohammed or Mohammedanism. I do not take the Koran to bed with me every night. But, if I did… Abounding
- A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So… Allowed
- To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the… Albigensian
- When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that… Aggressive
- Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from… Been
- ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who… Alone
- The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any… Air
- The professional soldier gains more and more power as the general courage of a community declines. Community
- It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. Camp
- There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really… All
- I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to… Boy
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