You are attached to what you attack.

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Anyone who seeks power wants absolute power.

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Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

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The Gnostics were rapidly driven out of business by the hierarchical orthodox Christians.

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Every combination of two or more human beings has both a useful aspect and a political aspect.

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A permanent division of labor inevitably creates occupational and class inequality and conflict.

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Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

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But instead I usually say that, though it may surprise them, I too believe in the necessity of organization.

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The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.

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To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

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