We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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