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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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"Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians."

"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."

"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."

"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."

"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."

"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."

"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"

"You can carry out a spiritual revolution by making God's truth the head of everything."

"If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed."
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"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."


"If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism."


"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."


"A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice."


"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."


"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual."
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