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"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
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"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."

"Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

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

"As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed."

"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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"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."

"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."

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

"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art."

"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."

"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."

"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."

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