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"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."
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"We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings."
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"Religion either produces the very best people or the very worst."
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"Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely - held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats."
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"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."
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"Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us."
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"What fueled this hatred? Society."
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"A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman's powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination."
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"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
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"When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after."
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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
Experience
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
Power
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement."
Tradition
"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
Being
"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread."
Man
"The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
Society
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
Freedom
"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
Man
"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."
Truth
"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
Man
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