That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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  So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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  War propaganda comes down, in the end, to substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings.

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  The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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  The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

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  The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

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  Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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