Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCERAll socialism involves slavery.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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