"We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself."
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"Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites."
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"Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them."
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"The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted."
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"The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists."
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"A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief."
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"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen."
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"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people."
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."
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"A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception."
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"Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head."
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"I want to be all used up when I die."
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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history."
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"The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity."
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"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom."
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"You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything."
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"Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make"
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"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
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"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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