“All ethics, politics and philosophies are pure assumptions, built upon assumptions. They rest on no sure basis. They are but shadowy castles-in-the-air erected by day-dreamers, or by rogues, upon nursery fables”

Chapters: 11. Appreciating Emptiness

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“Class, creed and nationality are words which should find no place in the vocabulary of the Australians, because these words are synonymous with everything that is hostile to peace and happiness in the world.”

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“Equality before the Law, is thus a contradiction in terms for Law itself is an incarnation of Inequality. It is true only in the subjective sense, that all who OBEY the Law are equally the servants of those who make it or caused it to be made.”

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“Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest, and conquest is founded on Power.”

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“He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle, is the beginning of all unwisdom.”

Chapters: 2. The Wordless Teachings

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“He who saith ‘thou shalt’ to me is my mortal foe.”

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“Human rights and wrongs are not determined by Justice, but by Might. Disguise it as you may, the naked sword is still king-maker and king-breaker, as of yore. All other theories are lies and — lures.

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“Just as the spider weaves his silky web, to lure flies into the larder of his banqueting hall in order that he may at his leisure, pick the flesh off their bones, so deceitful Ideals are cunningly woven by dexterous, political spiders, to capture and exploit Swarms of human flies.”

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“Nations are herds of cattle.”

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“Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty.”

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“Sagacious spirits doubt all things, and hold fast only to that which is demonstrably true.”

Chapters: 64. Ordinary Mind

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“The fear of death is the beginning of Slavery.”

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“The living forces of evil are to be found in the living ideals of to-day”

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“What is ‘education and enlightenment‘ if their dead-sea-fruit is a caitiff race, with rottenness in its bones?”

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“What is your ‘civilization and progress‘ if its only outcome is hysteria and down going? What is ‘government and law‘ if their ripened harvests are men without sap? What are ‘religions and literatures‘ if their grandest productions are hordes of faithful slaves?”

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