“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
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The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter second, telling other people to do so.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.