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The spirit of dogmatic theology poisons anything it touches.


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I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!



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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual



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The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.



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Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.



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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.



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It is with government as with medicine, its only business is the choice of evils. Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.





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