Comstockery is the world’s standing Joke at the expense of the United States. It confirms the deep-seated conviction of the Old World that America is a provincial place, a second rate, country-town civilization after all.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of all censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.
Thus Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! You may ask why this does not end in a deadlock. The answer is it is producing […]
Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
