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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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"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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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system."
People
"Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence."
Marriage
"The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from her doctor should be withheld from a poorer woman who might need it far more."
Information
"We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens."
Government
"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation."
Children
"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism."
Hope
"We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance."
Wisdom
"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
Woman
"If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker."
Right
"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
Children
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