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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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"Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so."
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"Kingdom laws are the same for everyone."
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"What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?"
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"Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated air-hole, a double iron door, and were called "dungeons" ; but the dungeon has been thought too horrible; now it is composed ofan iron door, a grated air-hole, a camp bed, a pavement of tiles, a ceiling of stone, four stone walls, and it is called "punishment cell."
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"How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong!"
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"When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community."
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"The corrupt system made the ordinary citizen absolutely powerless and without rights."
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"The law or any practice that is not for the good of the people must be changed."
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"Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?"
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"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
Being
"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans."
Peace
"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself."
Strategy
"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
Change
"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
Pleasure
"A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests."
Faith
"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."
Integrity
"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds."
Nature
"Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more."
Benefit
"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."
Benefit
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