You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power — he’s free again.
Original text (Russian)
Original text (Russian)
At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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