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I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

No man may make another free.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.