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A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose…
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Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.
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Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.
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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.
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Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
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It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the…
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
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The beginning is always today.
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The flexible muscles growing daily more rigid give character to the countenance ; that is, they trace the operations of the mind…
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To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught…
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I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
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Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
— Joseph Brodsky
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Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for…
— Charlie Brooker
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,-a system in which the two…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
— William Hazlitt
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Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it…
— Todd Solondz
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Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.…
— Steven Pinker
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Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
— Emile M. Cioran
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
— Bill Hicks
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Andre Malraux
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You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's…
— Miranda July
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