All socialism involves slavery.
HERBERT SPENCERMusic 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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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