The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. – Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. – Oscar Wilde
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. – Oscar Wilde
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses — once! – Oscar Wilde
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
The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it — a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes — will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished. – John Stuart Mill