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"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
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"People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice! There's dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies."
"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."
"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."
"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."
"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"
"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."
"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"
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"The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism."
"A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog."
"Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful."
"The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism."
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