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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons...more

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A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. Women, whatever a few male songs and sa...more

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It is part of the nature of a strong erotic passion—as distinct from a transient fit of appetite—that makes more towering promises than any other emot...more

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But of course, when they ask for a "lead from the church," most people mean they want the clergy to put out a political program. That is silly. The cl...more

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If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race...more

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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think t...more

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I gather they are even vaguely pacifist, not on moral grounds but from an ingrained habit of belittling anything that concerns the great mass of their...more

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I believe in political equality. But there are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in t...more