Alfred Lawson Quotes

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Education is the science of knowing TRUTH.
Miseducation is the art of absorbing FALSITY.
TRUTH is that which is, not that which ain't.
FALSITY is that which ain't, not that which is.

Alfred Lawson
When I look into the vastness of space and see the marvelous workings of its contents... I sometimes think that I was born ten or twenty thousand years ahead of time.

Alfred Lawson
Lawsonomy is the knowledge of Life and everything pertaining thereto. Lawsonomy is based on Life as it is and not upon a theory of what it ought to be. Theory, as espoused by so-called wise men or self-styled scholars has no place in Lawsonomy. Everything must be provable or reasonable or it is not Lawsonomy. Lawsonomy treats of things as they are and not as they are pretended to be. Facts, not fancies; Truth, not falsity; Knowledge not notions; is the foundation of Lawsonomy.

Alfred Lawson
Individual accumulation is responsible for crime; crime necessitates laws; laws breed tyranny.
Abolish individualism, and crime, tyranny and nine-tenths of your superfluous laws will be exterminated.

Alfred Lawson
The earth resembles a huge table over-loaded with good things and surrounded by a pack of gluttons each striving to secure the largest portion. And in this piggish scramble the strong obtain more and the weak less than is needed while enough is wasted to amply supply the whole. The best forces of the participants, which should be utilized for other purposes are also lost in the ravenous struggle, for it requires more power to retain than obtain these things.

Alfred Lawson
Religion teaches one to believe in an unnatural god who apparently must be ever ready to answer anybody's prayerful cry and act as a general servant to humanity by distributing good things to those who beg for them; a sort of meddlesome god who enters into all the petty quarrels of human beings and generally settles them in the wrong way.

Alfred Lawson
Natural Law teaches that there exists one grand supreme ruler who guides the entire machinery of the universe; the Deity who created the principle of life, and one who does not deviate from His eternal and immutable laws; an all-wise, everlasting and unchangeable being far beyond the faintest conception the brain of man has ever been able to formulate. His power unlimited; His laws supreme; His goodness incalculable.

Alfred Lawson
Selfishness is the root of all evil; eradicate selfishness from humanity and the earth will be heaven.

Alfred Lawson
The system by which the State required each individual to devote a portion of his time toward general production, and which gave him in return for his services a home, food, clothes, education, entertainment, and, in fact, everything necessary to his welfare and comfort, is so simple and easy of comprehension that any living thing above the intellectual line of the Ape should be able to understand it.

Alfred Lawson
Is it unmanly to cry? If so, I must confess my unmanliness, for on this occasion it was impossible for me to repress the tears from coursing down my cheeks, as I realized that the last of nature's grandest and noblest earthly beings had passed away. But the tears I shed apparently softened my nature, and as I stood buried in the depth of meditation concerning the preceding events, I became impregnated with the desire to try and do some real good in the world; to make myself useful to mankind; to live for others instead of myself alone.

Alfred Lawson