Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
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