“The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.”
― Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
― Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
“The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.”
― The Well and the Shallows
― The Well and the Shallows
“That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child.”
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“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
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