get in touch with the peasants, since they form about 85 per cent,
“The content of every thought must be given, in the last analysis, in terms of the experiences that warrant it, and no belief can be established as true except by reference to the sensory ‘impressions’ that provide its guarantee. (This is the general assumption of empiricism.)”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
“Every rational being must be tempted to think that the peculiar immediacy and inviolability of self-awareness guarantee its content.”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
“Industrial conscription is, of course, rigidly enforced. Every man and woman has to work, and slacking is severely punished, by prison or a penal settlement.”
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
“went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.”
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
“If Russia were governed democratically, according to the will of the majority, the inhabitants of Moscow and Petrograd would die of starvation. As it is, Moscow and Petrograd just manage to live, by having the whole civil and military power of the State devoted to their needs.”
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
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