Well, i was gonna quote marx, but i see you've already done that, creusson... which warms my heart
Never knew einstein was a socialist... that's pretty cool.
I can't quite follow this anarchist fellow... He is construction a picture of god blended from the old and the new testament, which is two opposite stories with different values and two alltogether different gods.
let me instead quote another philosopher i really like:
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Originally Posted by Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you
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Originally Posted by Niccoló Machiavelli: The Prince
But when it is necessary for him to proceed against the life of someone, he must do it on proper justification and for manifest cause, but above all things he must keep his hands off the property of others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
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