"We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two."

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"We may still contrive to raise three cheers for democracy, although at present she only deserves two."

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

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"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."

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"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."

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"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"Politicians look for interests not people."

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"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Ideas are fatal to caste."

"No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour."

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand."

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."

"England has always been disinclined to accept human nature."

"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

"People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness."

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"I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends."

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"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

"Politicians look for interests not people."

"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."

"Even if the paradise of material satisfaction, which they envisage as their final goal, were realized on earth, it would not bring mankind either contentment or peace."

"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."