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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
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"For my part, while I am as convinced a Socialist as the most ardent Marxian, I do not regard Socialism as a gospel of proletarian revenge, nor even, primarily, as a means of securing economic justice. I regard it primarily as an adjustment to machine production demanded by considerations of common sense, and calculated to increase the happiness, not only of proletarians, but of all except a tiny minority of the human race."

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."

"I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."

"A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect."

"The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism."
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"Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins."


"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."


"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."


"The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms."


"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."


"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."


"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."


"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."
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