Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
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Physical nature lies at our feet shackled with a hundred chains. What of the control of human nature? Do not point to the triumphs of psychiatry, social services or the war against crime. Domination of human nature can only mean the domination of every man by himself.
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The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment.
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From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.
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History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.
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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
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