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“History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men”
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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality”
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“If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.”
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“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.”
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“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
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“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
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“Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.”
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“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats”
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“God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat”
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“The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians”
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