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The money-grubber has been floating with the great current of society, while the poor man has been swimming against it.

— Edward Carpenter Defence of Criminals: A Criticism of Morality (1889)

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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.

To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.

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There is no solution except the freedom of woman—which means of course also the freedom of the masses of the people, men and women, and the ceasing altogether of economic slavery.

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The law is in a sense the consolidated public opinion of society.

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Let every woman whose heart bleeds for the sufferings of her sex, hasten to declare herself and to constitute herself, as far as she possibly can, a free woman.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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