The Soul of Man Under Socialism Quotes

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in ...

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is violently, grossly, and cruelly used, it produces a good effect by creating, or at any rate bringing out, the spirit of revo...

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is calle...

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is th...

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is not the highest form of sympathy. All sympathy is fine, but sympathy with suffering is the least fine mode. It is tainted with eg...

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism