“For the empire is huge. Complex. Often unwieldy and slow. And in many places, weak. A massive colossus, stretching out across the cantons, one in whose shadow we all live...and yet it is prone to wounds, infections, fevers, and ill humors. But its strangest feature is that the more its citizens feel it is broken, the more broken it actually becomes.”
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“...Populism tends to look good from a distance, but close up it can be frightening.”
“Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...].”