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- How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
- [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
- Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with…
- Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.
- Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
- Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting…
- The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
- It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own…
- The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
- The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
- The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely…
- All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more…
- Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on.…
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of…
- The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
- War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net…
- On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to…
- If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But…
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