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Quotes from The Better Part — Elbert Hubbard

1856–1915 United States

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If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

The Better Part (1901)

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

The Better Part (1901)

My faith is great: out of the transient darkness of the present the shadows will flee away, and Day will yet dawn. I am an Anarchist.

The Better Part (1901)

Destruction, violence, ravages, murder, are perpetrated by statute law.

The Better Part (1901)

I believe that brutality tends to defeat itself.

The Better Part (1901)

An Anarchist is one who minds his own business.

The Better Part (1901)

Would you make men better — set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

The Better Part (1901)

One mild form of coercion these rogues resort to is to call us unpatriotic when we speak the truth about them. Not long ago they would have cut off our heads. The world moves.

The Better Part (1901)

I AM an Anarchist.
All good men are Anarchists.

The Better Part (1901)

No man who believes in force and violence is an Anarchist. The true Anarchist decries all influences save those of love and reason. Ideas are his only arms.
Being an Anarchist I am also a Socialist.

The Better Part (1901)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elbert Hubbard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.