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★ Feminism Forever ★
Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly.
Women are all female impersonators to some degree.
Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
To me, "sexual freedom" means freedom from having to have sex.
★ Voltaire ★
Common sense is not so common.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
All men are equal; it is not birth, but virtue alone, that makes the difference.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world.
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race.
...the safest course is to do nothing against one`s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
★ Oscar Wilde ★
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
There is no sin except stupidity.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Everything popular is wrong.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Sweden
