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- When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country…
- It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former…
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless…
- Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but…
- The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it…
- The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more…
- Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
- I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most…
- Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him…
- Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us…
- Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of…
- Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim…
- Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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