Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.
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The state of man’s mind, or the elementary phase of mind which he so far possesses, conforms precisely to the state of the world as he so far views it.
Only thought is capable of inventing the fiction of a State that is universal by right, of elevation the State to the level of de jure universality.
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.