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The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

H. L. Mencken

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Funny Heaven Humor Person Place
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.
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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner
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Death Fear Law Process Talk
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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Government Politics Yourself
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Freedom Gratitude Myself Thankful World
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Election Liberty Material Politics
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Feminism Hate Man Women
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.
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Belief Himself Mystery Right True Victim
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Believe Funny Hard Man Transformation
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Belief Freedom Ignorance Rule Wisdom

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