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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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Personal Development
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
Failure
"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help."
People
"You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing."
Nothing
"Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies."
Politics
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
People
"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."
Blood
"The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites."
Politics
"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
Government
"The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."
People
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
Politics
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