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| School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency. | | Common sense; Day; Schools | |
| School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. | | Uncategorized | |
| School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers | | Teachers and teaching | |
| Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. | | Science | |
| Self-respect The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious | | Uncategorized | |
| So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is | | Men | |
| Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master | | Socialism | |
| Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives | | Suicide | |
| Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents | | Schools | |
| Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell | | America and Americans; Day | |
| Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body | | Temptation | |
| That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t | | Uncategorized | |
| The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality | | Education | |
| The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating | | Men and Women | |
| The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages | | America and Americans | |
| The American Republic, the envy and despair of all other nations | | Uncategorized | |
| The American, in other words, thinks that the sinner has no rights that any one is bound to respect, and he is prone to mistake an unsupported charge of sinning, provided it be made violently enough, for actual proof and confession | | America and Americans | |
| The argument that capital punishment degrades the state is moonshine, for if that were true then it would degrade the state to send men to war... The state, in truth, is degraded in its very nature: a few butcheries cannot do it any further damage. | | Uncategorized | |
| The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it | | Uncategorized | |
