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"Philosophy can make people sick."
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"Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion."
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"Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me the most. I distrust extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who from such governments. Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner."
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"Those who say that I am being punished are saying that god can't think of anything more vengeful than cancer for a heavy smoker."
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"Some lurid things have been said about me-that I am a racist, a hopeless alcoholic, a closet homosexual and so forth-that I leave to others to decide the truth of. I'd only point out, though, that if true these accusations must also have been true when I was still on the correct side, and that such shocking deformities didn't seem to count for so much then. Arguing with the Stalinist mentality for more than three decades now, and doing a bit of soapboxing and street-corner speaking on and off, has meant that it takes quite a lot to hurt my tender feelings, or bruise my milk-white skin."
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"Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
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"We know of no spectacle more ridiculous-or more contemptible-than that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth."
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"We cause havoc to our society when we only preach miracles."
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"What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!"
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"All around us were people I had spent ten years avoiding--shapeless women in wool bathing suits, dull-eyed men with hairless legs and self-conscious laughs, all Americans, all fearsomely alike. These people should be kept at home, I thought; lock them in the basement of some goddamn Elks Club and keep them pacified with erotic movies; if they want a vacation, show them a foreign art film; and if they still aren't satisfied, send them into the wilderness and run them with vicious dogs."
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"Hater" and "hate" are used when no critical thought can be formed. We can definitely do better."
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."
Education
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Wisdom
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing."
Courage
"The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes."
Politics
"Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own."
Relationship
"Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
Wisdom
"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
Friendship
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
Business
"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
Politics
"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
Democracy
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