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“I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him. ”
― Mikhail Bakunin

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#2

“Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will. ”
― Mikhail Bakunin

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#3

“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.”
― Mikhail Bakunin

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#4

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: bernard-shaw, irish, pigs, pointlessness

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#5

“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: anti-patriotism, identity, nation, nationalism, politics

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#6

“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: humor, religion

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#7

“My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#8

“Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: humankind, monogamy, morality

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#9

“Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married

tags: farm, humankind

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#10

“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
― Robert Heinlein

tags: efficiency, laziness, morning-people, progress

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#11

“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cult, danger, law, organized-religion, power, religion, sect, separation-of-church-and-state

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#12

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: accomplishment, achievement, inspirational, misattributed, modesty, recognition

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“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression

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#14

“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: depression, economy, money, recession, work

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#15

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
― Harry S. Truman

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#16

“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: education, history, past

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#17

“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: dunning-kruger-effect

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#18

“The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.”
― Brian Herbert, House Corrino

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#19

“Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.”
― Brian Herbert, House Corrino

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#20

“Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.”
― Brian Herbert, House Corrino

tags: knowledge, teaching

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#21

“I say there is no modern evil which cannot be justified by these ancient texts; and there is nowhere in Christendom a clergy which cannot be persuaded to cite them at the demand of ruling classes.”
― Upton Sinclair

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