"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots."
-Erich Fromm
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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.“
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"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."
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