The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.
More Quotes from Jose Gasset:
Civilization is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the last resortJose Gasset
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
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
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
Jose Gasset
The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.
Jose Gasset
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