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- It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion (1916) preface
- Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration"
- "Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
- There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
- All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
- When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
- To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"
- Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
- Oswald Spengler (1880 - 1936), The Hour of Decision, 1933
- Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
- John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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