Quotes by Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if p — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate o — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more ofte — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work of art is beautiful b — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at whic — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes o — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is. — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what h — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism