There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

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They were the triumphant and insolent possessors; they had a hall, and a fire, and food and clothing and money, and so they might preach to hungry men, and the hungry men must be humble and listen. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not managed to get a decent existence for their bodies?

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Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

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You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.

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They use everything about the hog except the squeal.

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Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

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Consider Christmas - could Satan in his most malignant mood have devised a worse combination of graft plus bunkum than the system whereby several hundred million people get a billion or so gifts for which they have no use, and some thousands of shop clerks die of exhaustion while selling them, and every other child in the Western world is made ill from overeating - all in the name of the lowly Jesus?

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Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

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It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.

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