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- To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1881
- Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
- Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)
- If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistulae Morales
- To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
- e e Cummings (1894 - 1962), Selected Letters, 1955
- I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security for the minorities.
- Lord Acton
- I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
- Mary Baker Eddy, "Harvest," 1906
- Religions are born and may die, but superstition in immortal.
- Will and Ariel Durant, the Age of reason Begins, 1950, The Age of Reason Begins, 1950
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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