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" A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. "
Be Prepared
Community
Ship
" A forest bird never wants a cage. "
Cage
Wants
Never
" A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. "
Minority
Majority
Wrong
" A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. "
Words
Leave
Will
" Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. "
Refuge
Air
Castles
" Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' "
Lies
Use
Ideals
" Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' "
Word
Ideals
Lies
" Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. "
More
Society
Know
" Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt. "
Debt
Free
Soon
" I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! "
Science
Society
Capitalism
" It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. "
Animals
Politicians
Torture
" Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed. "
Look
Man
Black
" Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man. "
Much
Demands
Man
" Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. "
Truth
You
Never
" One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. "
Struggle
Long
Doing
" People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it. "
Who
Time
People
" Really to sin you have to be serious about it. "
Sin
You
Really
" The devil is compromise. "
Devil
Compromise
" The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. "
Majority
Wrong
Right
" The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. "
First
Struggle
Man
" The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. "
Pillars
Society
Truth
" These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. "
Finance
Rest
Follow
" The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. "
See
Second
Will
" The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. "
Spirit
Freedom
Pillars
" The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. "
Who
He
World
" The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. "
Freedom
Truth
Society
" What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! "
Capitalism
Society
Science
" Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. "
Along
Home
Life
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