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"Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill."
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
"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."
"A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition."
"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."
"School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency."
"But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus."
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
"Every man is his own hell."
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
"No man ever quite believes in any other man."
"For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt."
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong."
"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess."
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another."
"A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark."
"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too."
"...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free."
"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."