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< i > Individuals and groups seek power to advance their own interests, including m notably, their own pecuniary interest. And to extend to others their personal, religious or soical values. And to win support for their economic or other social perception of public good < / i >

So far: Funny and Informative

"...everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way"

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry"

"...we had heard that there had been many Germans in Italian uniforms... that was one of those things you always heard in the war. It was one of the things the enemy always did to you"

"...thereafter rich planters not only thought it unwise to educate men thus destined to live on a plane with beasts, but considered it more profitable to work a slave to death during seven years and buy another in his stead than to teach and dehumanize him with a view to increasing his efficiency"

i'll come back to this.