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“Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their own case they are not ashamed of practicing towards others; they demand just rule for themselves, but where other men are concerned they care nothing about it. Such behavior is irrational; unless the one party is, and the other is not, born to serve, in which case men have a right to command, not indeed all their fellows, but only those who are intended to be subjects; just as we ought not to hunt mankind, whether for food or sacrifice . .”

Thinking Men Art Government Care Born Party Cases Sacrifice Subjects Mankind Human Nature Ought Demand Behavior Concerned Fellows Command Ashamed Irrational Unjust Hunts Statesmanship Command Not

Author:Aristotle

“[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.”

Men Believe Doe Reason Government Hate Understanding Interest Community Party Rights Mankind Republican Capable Doctrine Appeals Insult Republican Party Offended Governing Outrage Hereditary

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.”

Men Party Mankind Higher Regard Impulse Arjuna

Book:The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.”

Seems Law Religion Natural Justice Party Mankind Independent Sentiments

Author:Voltaire

“A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.”

“I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”

Ends Spirit Politics Party Mankind Politician Gains Madness Unhappy Division

Author:Alexander Pope

“If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.”

Ifs States Speak Social Party Mankind Policy Morality Social Policy

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.”

Source: Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self