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According To My Observations, Mankind Are Among The Most Easily Tamable And Domesticable Of All Creatures In The Animal World. They Are Readily Reducible To Submission, So Readily Conditionable (to Coin A Word) As To Exhibit An Almost Incredibly Enduring Patience Under Restraint And Oppression Of The Most Flagrant Character. So Far Are They From Displaying Any Overweening Love Of Freedom That They Show A Singular Contentment With A Condition Of Servitorship, Often Showing A Curious Canine Pride In It, And Again Often Simply Unaware That They Are Existing In That Condition.

It Is Easier To Seize Wealth Than To Produce It, And As Long As The State Makes The Seizure Of Wealth A Matter Of Legalized Privilege, So Long Will The Squabble For That Privilege Go On.

Like All Predatory Or Parasitic Institutions, Its First Instinct Is That Of Self-preservation. All Its Enterprises Are Directed First Towards Preserving Its Own Life, And, Second, Towards Increasing Its Own Power And Enlarging The Scope Of Its Own Activity. For The Sake Of This It Will, And Regularly Does, Commit Any Crime Which Circumstances Make Expedient.

Above All Things The Mass-mind Is Most Bitterly Resentful Of Superiority. It Will Not Tolerate The Thought Of An Elite; And Under A Political System Of Universal Suffrage, The Mass-mind Is Enabled To Make Its Antipathies Prevail.

As Sheer Casual Reading Matter, I Still Find The English Dictionary The Most Interesting Book In Our Language.