“All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collisions. From these collisions spring misproportions between men's desires and their powers; and from these, transgressions. The more active the State is, the greater is the number of these.” MenStatesPoliticalDesireInterestNumbersGreaterSpringHarmonyUnityActiveVarietyOccasionsArrangementsCollisionTransgressionManifold Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt
“I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.” MadeCharacterPoliticalDesireReligiousAtheismRemainsPositive AtheismOccasionsDemonstration Author:Francesc Ferrer i Guardia