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- Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
- Grown men do not need leaders.
- Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to…
- Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
- I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
- Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend…
- Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can…
- Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
- There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
- By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
- Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
- Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the…
- We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a…
- I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if…
- Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.
- Beware of the man who has no enemies.
- No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
- The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.
- Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
- In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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