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“There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.”

World May Problem Seems Turns Rooms Views Study Serious Civilization Solutions Universal Institutions Finals Contempt Adoption World Problems Myopia

Author:George F. Kennan

“But would the young do any better under the same circumstances? Will they do any better when their turns come? The answer is that youth would not and cannot, given the financial and economic framework within which the elders are operating. While the moral convictions of individuals are important in the long run, it is institutions that determine the immediate course of events - particularly the institutions of finance.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.”

“In late marriage alone lies the compulsion to retain an institution which, twist and turn as you like, is and remains a disgrace to humanity, an institution which is damned ill-suited to a being who with his usual modesty likes to regard himself as the 'image' of God.”

Lying Humanity Turns Religious Late Regard Institutions Remains Ill Likes Usual Modesty Twists Compulsion Disgrace God Image Mein Kampf Twists And Turns

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.”

Feels Problem Turns Focus Institutions Threat Tendencies Internals Inward Hostility Slipping Slipping Away

Author:David Brooks

“When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.”

Feelings Might Turns Weight Institutions Inward Assault

Author:David Brooks

“The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.”

Ifs Desire Turns Differences Party Mass Weakness Tasks Tests Institutions Revolutionary Regimes Submit Parliament Anarchist Parliamentary Boycott

Book:History of the Russian Revolution

Source: History of the Russian Revolution