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"Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else... The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."
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"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."
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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."
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"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."
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"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."
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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."
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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."
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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."
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"The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."
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"Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it."
Sex
"One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality."
World
"The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens."
Soul
"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
Democracy
"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."
Design
"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."
Death
"God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything."
God
"People always make war when they say they love peace."
Love
"It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral."
Time
"One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul."
Love
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