I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.
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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
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The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.
Jose Gasset
Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy more than that, with an enemy which is weak.
Jose Gasset
Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat
Jose Gasset
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