“To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers” MenBelieveYoungExistenceCarCrimeCapitalismMachinesWorkersYoung ManShopsPrincipalCommodityAlienationPrimacy Book:The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings Source: The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings
“Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.” IfsMenWorldWritingBelieveMayYoungPoliticalDesireLostActingEnemyVirtueCrimeHabitHarderDareYoung ManWickedAttributesFelicityWicked ManKnowledge Of The WorldPolitical Writing Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.” MenBelieveTruthYoungErrorsFoolishCleverYoung ManOriginalityRecognizingForfeit Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe