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- It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
- Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because…
- Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare exceptions, regards it…
- Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, the state's first instinct is that of self-preservati on. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own…
- The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the…
- Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on…
- Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind…
- Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle