"The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot."
-William Ralph Inge
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"Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.“
-William Ralph Inge
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"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."
-William Ralph Inge
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
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"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours."
-William Ralph Inge
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"True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."
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"To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy."
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"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
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"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
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"Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know."
-Groucho Marx
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"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."
-Andy Warhol
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