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Quote by Oscar Wilde
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make wha

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful. – Oscar Wilde

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. – Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about lifes sores the better. – Oscar Wilde

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Beauty
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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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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. Its become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. – E. L. Doctorow

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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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