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“As long as I have any choice, I will stay only in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law are the rule.”
I regard class differences as contrary to justice
My political ideal is that of democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
In two weeks the sheep-like masses can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that the men are prepared to put on uniform and kill and be billed, for the sake of the worthless aims of a few interested parties.
Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?
Communities tend to be less guided than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility.
State is made for man, not man for the State. And in this respect
They say further, and truly, that the greatest obstacle to international order is that monstrously exaggerated spirit of nationalism which also goes by the fair-sounding but misused name of patriotism.
The interests of each country must be subordinated to the interests of the wider community.
