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Bolshevism is the other end of Czarism.

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In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.

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Topics: Cure Democracy Few Going Ills Keep Most Must Our Political Remain Social Them True Us

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Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

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Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

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Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

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All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.

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Topics: All Things Come Dealt East Evil Fire Good Good And Evil Like Out Played Seems Things

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Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

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Topics: Chiefly Fundamentally Materialistic Nations Oppressed Rule Spiritual Strong Weak

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To be sure, we would not allow the world, if we can help it, to peep into our soul, much less to enter it. Our No-Man's-Land is hedged about with a wire entanglement of insincerities. And often we take refuge in a temperament, a pose, or a mystic mood.

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An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

~Ameen Rihani

Topics: Above Articulate Below Even Exhausted He Heritage His However Ideal Idealist Message Nation Only People Primitive Races Same Sense Small Them Those Time True Ahead

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We are all idealists in that we are ever discontented with the present state of the Ego and the World.

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Writer

Born: November 24th, 1876

Died: September 13th, 1940

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