"Humanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate."

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“The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise against it sooner or later.”

“Injustice we worship; all that lifts us out of the miseries of life is the sublime fruit of injustice. Every immortal deed was an act of fearful injustice; the world of grandeur, of triumph, of courage, of lofty aspiration, was built up on injustice. Man would not be man but for injustice.”

“Ugliness is trivial, the monstrous is terrible.”

“He must put his shoulder to the wheel and get it right; one more push, that was all that was wanted.”

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