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[Anonymous Minsheng Writer] ...if we wish to save society from perishing we cannot use methods that are doomed!
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It may be that cattle must be driven by fear. Men can and should be led by hope.
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...the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred.
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When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness? And even, if we would extend our concern beyond our own life, how frivolous appear our most enlarged and most generous projects; when we consider the incessant changes and revolutions of human affairs, by which laws and learning, books and governments are hurried away by time, as by a rapid stream, and are lost in the immense ocean of matter?
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You may well ask, "Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches, and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent-resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth.
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Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.
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...all social changes in the present antagonistic society occur by way of struggle.
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Heaven and Earth are inactive, yet the sun, moon, stars, and constellations move in the day and the night. There are rain, dew, frost, and freezing rain in the autumn and winter. The great rivers flow without pause, and the grass and trees grow without stopping. Therefore, inaction can be flexible. If there is a fixed point in action, then it cannot be inaction.
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...the lack of what once was often has more effect than what remains.
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They [accepted modes of existence] persist so long as their benefit is evidence, and fade away when it is not. No tradition lasts for ever. Change and adaptability is the very essence of human existence...
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Like the statue of Glaucus, which was so disfigured by time, seas and tempests, that it looked more like a wild beast than a god, the human soul, altered in society by a thousand causes perpetually recurring, by the acquisition of a multitude of truths and errors, by the changes happening to the constitution of the body, and by the continual jarring of the passions, has, so to speak, changed in appearance, so as to be hardly recognizable.
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Can I change a piece of nonsense into sense by reforming it, or must I drop it outright?
Henceforth what is to be done is no longer about the state (the form of the state, etc.), but about me. With this all questions about the prince's power, the constitution, and so on, sink into their true abyss and their true nothingness. I, this nothing, shall put forth my creations from myself.
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...life, which, if it "stood still" only a second, would no longer be life.
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We address all you who are in power, from the Czar, the members of the Council of State, and Ministers, to the relations-uncles, brothers, and entourage of the Czar, and all who can influence him by persuasion. We appeal to you not as to enemies, but as to brothers, who, whether willingly or not, are inseparably bound up with us, so that all the sufferings we undergo react on you also-and react much more painfully if you feel that you could remove these sufferings but have failed to do so- we appeal to you to act so that the existing state of things may cease.
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If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
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...[medieval society] was a poor civilization that was afraid of the light.
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