Quote by Oscar Wilde
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. – Oscar Wilde

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesnt want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen. – George Bernard Shaw

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The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm — as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy. – Camille Anna Paglia

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