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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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The more stitches, the less riches.
Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.
History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma.
Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
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Without economic security, the love of servitude cannot possibly come into existence.