"The newspaper reader says: this party will..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts.
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“In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all.”
“Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!”
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More on Error
“How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.”
“When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.”
“To err and not reform, this may indeed be called error.”