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 SPENCERSociety exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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