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

H. L. Mencken

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Atheist Moral Motivational Religion Right
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.
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Corruption Dedication Enemy Himself Man Politics Professional Waste
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
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
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Limitation Oppression Power War
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
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.
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Education Knowledge Simplicity Teaching Wonderful
Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Dignity Human Race
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Difference Kind Smart Stay

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