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    Emma Goldman
    “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchism, independence, independent-thought, inspirational, liberty, revolution
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    Emma Goldman
    “If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
    ― Emma Goldman
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    Emma Goldman
    “Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”
    ― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
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    Emma Goldman
    “The most violent element in society is ignorance. ”
    ― Emma Goldman
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    Emma Goldman
    “Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals…”
    ― Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays
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    Emma Goldman
    “When we can't dream any longer we die.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: aspirations, dreams, giving-up
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    Emma Goldman
    “Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: bigotry, independent-thought, prejudice
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    Emma Goldman
    “Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: arrogance, emma-goldman, patriotism, superstition
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    Emma Goldman
    “Every society has the criminals it deserves.”
    ― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings & Speeches
    tags: anarchism, criminal, emma-goldman, politics, society
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    Emma Goldman
    “Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: anarchism, political-philosophy, revolution
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    Emma Goldman
    “The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.”
    ― Emma Goldman
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: humor, politics, stupidity
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    Terry Pratchett
    “If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic
    tags: gods, humour, religion, stupidity
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    Laurell K. Hamilton
    “Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.”
    ― Laurell K. Hamilton, The Laughing Corpse
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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
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    Groucho Marx
    “I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: classic-insult
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

    [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom
    tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
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    George Bernard Shaw
    “I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
    — George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)

    "Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
    — Churchill's response”
    ― George Bernard Shaw
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    Oscar Wilde
    “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: classic-insult
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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

    That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
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    Moses Hadas
    “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
    ― Moses Hadas
    tags: bad-reviews, books, classic-insult, irony, literary-criticism, time
    242 likes

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    Andrew Lang
    “He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.”
    ― Andrew Lang
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    Stephen Bishop
    “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
    ― Stephen Bishop
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    “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
    ― Paul Keating
    tags: classic-insult
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    Sophocles
    “To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    tags: brief, classic-insult, communication, concise, humor, insult, word-choice, writing
    31 likes



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