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- A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.
- The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
- One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a…
- God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, and the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in his arms, but also a kind…
- The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.
- [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…
- What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively,…
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- 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…
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- 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 most popular man under a democracy is not the most democratic man, but the most despotic man. The common folk delight in the exactions…
- Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.
- When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any…
- The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of…
- All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to…
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
- This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their…
- Good government is that which delivers the citizen from being done out of his life and property too arbitrarily and violently-one that relieves him sufficiently…
- Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives…
- What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from…
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