Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 19:57
To achieve the goal of common efforts, we must learn to grasp the worthlessness, inconstancy, and vacillation of the masses. We must realize their incapacity to understand the questions of state life and their own welfare. We must comprehend that the great masses of the people are blind and wholly without understand and that they willy-nilly stagger from right to left, backward to forward. A blind man cannot lead the blind without leading them into the abyss. Consequently, even the "inquisitive" and creative among the masses can never perform as leaders in governing the states. Even when they supposedly possess some intelligence, they are still not fit to act as trailblazers and leaders of the masses. They will attain to no other goal than the ruin of the entire people.
Only a personality educated to self-mastery from youth can recognize and act upon the great tendencies and principles of statecraft.
Only a personality educated to self-mastery from youth can recognize and act upon the great tendencies and principles of statecraft.