Sections (TOC) :
• 1
57 Words; 355 Characters
• 2
19 Words; 111 Characters
• 3
8 Words; 49 Characters
• 4
32 Words; 176 Characters
• 5
74 Words; 516 Characters
• 6
68 Words; 382 Characters
• 7
68 Words; 382 Characters
• 8
16 Words; 115 Characters
• 9
22 Words; 121 Characters
• 10
24 Words; 156 Characters
• 11
43 Words; 243 Characters
• 12
40 Words; 243 Characters
• 13
142 Words; 747 Characters
• 14
35 Words; 194 Characters
Sections (Content) :
• 1
There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state."
• 2
...the cruelty of a tyrant is not in proportion to his strength, but to the obstacles that oppose him.
• 3
I pity the people, but scorn the chiefs.
• 4
In a city of a thousand families, or a clan of a hundred chariots, my disciple Ch'iu might be employed as governor, but I do not know whether he is perfectly virtuous.
• 5
The loathsome cruelty of mankind to man forms one of his inescapable characteristic and differentiative features; and is explicable only in terms of his carnivorous, and cannibalistic origin... The blood-bespattered, slaughter-gutted archives of history from the earliest Egyptian and Sumerian records to the most recent atrocities of the Second World War...[proclaim] this mark of Cain that separates man dietically from his anthropoidal relatives and allies him rather with the deadliest of the Carnivora.
• 6
For a man clothed with the almost absolute power of a president to strike down men gagged and bound, as these men are, he must have an unspeakably brutal and cowardly nature, just such a nature as the governor of an empire state must have to turn a deaf ear to the agonizing entreaties of a shrieking, shuddering woman and see her dragged into the horrors of electrocution.
• 7
It is no advantage to a prince, or other magistrate, to enjoy more power than is consistent with the good of mankind; nor is it of any benefit to a man to be unjust: but these maxims are a feeble security against the passions and follies of men. Those who are entrusted with any measures of influence, are disposed, from a mere aversion to constraint, to remove opposition.
• 8
Alexander of Greece! Cesar of Rome! Your laurels are spattered with blood, ambition unsheathed your sword.
• 9
Human beings have short lives. If we are cruel, everyone will curse us during our life, and mock us when we die.
• 10
...an anatomist finds no more in the greatest monarch than in the lowest peasant or day-laborer; and a moralist may, perhaps, frequently find less.
• 11
...when a prince is with his army, and has under control a multitude of soldiers, then it is quite necessary for him to disregard the reputation of cruelty, for without it he would never hold his army united or disposed to its duties.
• 12
Manasses, Cyrus, Nebchadnezzar, Pharaoh, Cesar, Hannegan the Second -- need I go on? Samuel warned us against them, then gave us one. When they have a few wise men shackled nearby to counsel them, they became more dangerous than ever.
• 13
What, indeed, must go on in the head of some [King] Wilhelm of Germany -- a narrow-minded, ill-educated, vain man, with the ideals of a German Junker -- when there is nothing he can say so stupid or so horrid that it will not be met by an enthusiastic 'Hoch!' and be commented on by the Press of the entire world as though it were something highly important. When he says that, at his word, soldiers should be ready to kill their own fathers, people shout 'Hurrah!' When he says that the Gospel must be introduced with an iron fist- 'Hurrah!' When he says the army is to take no prisoners in China, but to slaughter everybody, he is not put into a lunatic asylum, but people shout 'Hurrah!' and set sail for China to execute his commands.
• 14
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.
Chronology :
March 12, 2020 : Cruelty -- Added.
HTML file generated from :
http://RevoltSource.com/