Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Many citizens see all the leadership of these large institutions together in a conspiracy against them rather than in any adversary relationship with each other.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
There are very few things that surprise me.
The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
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