Quote #113

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.

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  1. That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
  2. What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you-what a revelation.
  3. Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
  4. To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
  5. Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday ch…
  6. Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
  7. Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
  8. We are all secularized anarchists today.

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