The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. – Oscar Wilde
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. – Oscar Wilde
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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil
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While the State becomes inflated and hypertrophied in order to obtain a firm enough grip upon individuals, but without succeeding, the latter, without mutual relationships, tumble over one another like so many liquid molecules, encountering no central energy to retain, fix and organize them. – Emile Durkheim
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