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Oscar Wilde

The Soul of Man under Socialism

  • Stephen Owidihas quoted2 years ago
    As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
  • Stephen Owidihas quoted2 years ago
    He is at any rate a healthy protest. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
  • Stephen Owidihas quoted2 years ago
    It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
  • Stephen Owidihas quoted2 years ago
    Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty.
  • Stephen Owidihas quoted2 years ago
    Charity creates a multitude of sins.
  • Лилия Зайцеваhas quoted3 years ago
    Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognises infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it. It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of ones neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions.
  • Daniel Cherninhas quoted4 years ago
    When the wrong, and the disease, and the injustice are removed, it will have no further place.
  • Daniel Cherninhas quoted4 years ago
    Upon the other hand, the terrible truth that pain is a mode through which man may realise himself exercises a wonderful fascination over the world.
  • Daniel Cherninhas quoted4 years ago
    There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
  • Daniel Cherninhas quoted4 years ago
    In fact, the popular novel that the public calls healthy is always a thoroughly unhealthy production; and what the public call an unhealthy novel is always a beautiful and healthy work of art.
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