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“Past and Present have different customs; new and old adopt different measures. To try to use the ways of a generous and lenient government to rule the people of a critical age is like trying to drive a runaway horse without using reins or whip.”
― Han Feizi: Basic Writings
― Han Feizi: Basic Writings
“I guess it’s true what they say, that a child is as mature as his parents are incompetent.” Yang”
― Dawn
― Dawn
“Is that "true justice" you spoke of something that requires you to step over the dignity of others to reach?”
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“Society gained more by not placing excessive power in the hands of mediocre politicians than it lost by limiting the power of great heroes and statesmen who might or might not appear once every few centuries.”
― Endurance
― Endurance
“When political authority and journalism colluded with one another, democracy lost its ability to critique and cleanse itself, allowing a deadly infection to take root.”
― Endurance
― Endurance
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