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All the habits of Man are evil. And above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers....more

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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

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When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly ...more

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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.

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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes v...more

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Nothing exists except through human consciousness

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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

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To die hating them, that was freedom.

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

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He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of...more

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Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die vio...more