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- A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
- [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…
- It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
- 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…
- Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are…
- The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of…
- Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
- I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
- For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel…
- It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
- Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
- 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…
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