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.
HERBERT SPENCERA 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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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 ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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