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It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind.

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

We Are The Living Graves Of Murdered Beasts We are the living graves of murdered beasts Slaughtered to satisfy our appetites We never pause to wonder at our feasts If animals, like men, can possibly have rights We pray on Sundays that we may have light To guide our footsteps on the path we tread We're sick of war We do not want to fight The thought of it now fills our hearts with dread And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead Like carrion crows we live and feed on meat Regardless of the suffering and pain We cause by doing so. If thus we treat Defenseless animals for sport or gain How can we hope in this world to attain the PEACE we say we are so anxious for We pray for it o'er hecatombs of slain To God, while outraging the moral law Thus cruelty begets its offspring: war.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -George Bernard Shaw.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.

The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.