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There is, therefore, a temptation to return to an explanation which automatically discharges the victim of responsibility: it seems quite adequate to ...more

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The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the...more

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Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limitations to its economic expansion. The bourgeoisie tu...more

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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern time...more

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Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common ...more

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For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the univ...more

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What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched ...more

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every thought that deviates from the officially prescribed and permanently changing line is already suspect, no matter in which field of human activit...more

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THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that fro...more

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A fundamental difference between modern dictatorships and all other tyrannies of the past is that terror is no longer used as a means to exterminate a...more

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Equality of condition, though it is certainly a basic requirement for justice, is nevertheless among the greatest and most uncertain ventures of moder...more

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fict...more