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A restless and trifling spirit, the timid prudence of the present moment, a distrust and aversion to the most useful novelties, possess the minds of those who are empowered to regulate the actions of mankind.
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Tsze-kung finally inquired, 'Of what sort are those of the present day, who engage in government?' The Master said 'Pooh! they are so many pecks and hampers, not worth being taken into account.'
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The Mayor...who was also chairman of the town council, was barricaded in his house, besieged by imaginary and irrational fears that the Russians had invaded and were intent on his capture, torture, and rape of his wife and daughter.
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Fickleness and instability, your lordship will please to observe, are of the very essence of a real statesman.
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Lords are mostly biased; they favor one person and hate another.
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The strong look fierce and are oppressive; the weak shiver with anguish and are servile. You pretend to be honest to attain your avaricious ends; you harbor dangerous thoughts within you but appear benevolent to the outside world. When you commit some crime you do not repent of it, but when you encounter some good fortune you take it as a matter for personal pride. Because you pursue these things to the exclusion of all else, you become stagnant and do not develop.
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...when we kings get together we always find plenty to talk about.
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Any body of men when brought face to face with the duties and responsibilities of government becomes to a certain extent opportunist; its policy tends to be determined by the situation and not the situation by its policy.
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...different leaders can make a difference. Still, this does not necessarily mean that their politics will be any less violent or erratic.
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Warlords have come and gone, prime ministers have faded from the scene, new hopes have been aroused, old "approaches" discarded, and fresh starts initiated.
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Human types supposedly extinct for centuries, the dancing dervish, the robber chieftain, the Grand Inquisitor, have suddenly reappeared, not as inmates of lunatic asylums, but as the masters of the world. Mechanization and a collective economy seemingly aren't enough. By themselves they lead merely to the nightmare we are now enduring: endless war and endless underfeeding for the sake of war, slave populations toiling behind barbed wire, women dragged shrieking to the block, cork-lined cellars where the executioner blows your brains out from behind. So it appears that amputation of the soul isn't just a simple surgical job, like having your appendix out. The wound has a tendency to go septic.
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It is not sufficient that we laugh at the ignorance of such law-makers; it is necessary that we reprobate their want of principle.
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...all men in power are corruptible...
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The ruler who is good for anything ought not to beg his subjects to be ruled by him; although the present governors of mankind are of a different stamp; they may be justly compared to the mutinous sailors, and the true helmsmen to those who are called by them good-for-nothings and star-gazers.
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At present the governors, induced by the motives which I have named, treat their subjects badly; while they and their adherents, especially the young men of the governing class, are habituated to lead a life of luxury and idleness both of body and mind; they do nothing, and are incapable of resisting either pleasure or pain.
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In our Government deliberations, we were just like a gardener who, instead of watering his plants, waits for rain, certain that it will come sooner or later.
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...those who rise to the top are most often merely petty blunderers, petty swindlers, and petty intriguers, whose petty talents cause them to get into the highest positions at Court, but, as soon as they have got there, serve only to make their ineptitude clear to the public.
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Apart from the fact that such men [as kings and presidents] are surrounded from earliest childhood to the grave by the most insensate luxury and an atmosphere of falsehood and flattery which always accompanies them, their whole education and all their occupations are centered on one object: learning about former murders, the best present-day ways of murdering, and the best preparations for future murder. From childhood they learn about killing in all its possible forms. They always carry about with them murderous weapons-swords or sabers; they dress themselves in various uniforms; they attend parades, reviews and maneuvers; they visit one another, presenting one another with Orders and nominating one another to the command of regiments-and not only does no one tell them plainly what they are doing or say that to busy one's self with preparations for killing is revolting and criminal, but from all sides they hear nothing but approval and enthusiasm for all this activity of theirs.
Chronology :
March 12, 2020 : Fickleness -- Added.
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