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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Cheating Expectation Government Honesty Humanity Lying Need People Resistance
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Freedom Humanity Peace Rule Save War
Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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Danger Democracy Freedom Scare
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Build Hate Love Religion
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Easy Hard Love Relationship Stop War
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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Democracy Freedom Right Rule Success War

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