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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
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"I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world."
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"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."
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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."
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"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
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"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
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"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
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"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
Evolution
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
Politics
"Life is a dead-end street."
Life
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
Democracy
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Democracy
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods."
Religion
"A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there."
Religion
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
Unity
"The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil."
Success
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