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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that read more
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.
We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First read more
We just did a survey that showed.... something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn't vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of read more
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made read more
...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean read more
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence; and things mean and splendid exist alike.
