"The State is to make what is..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg”

“Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.”

“Biography lends to death a new terror.”

“That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.”

“For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.”

“We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.”

“There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the interests of the collective.”

“The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves”

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”