![]() Under democracy he will be encouraged to starve to death in a garret, under fascism he will be put in a concentration camp, under communism he will be liquidated.” As for the wise man, his lot will be much the same under any ideology. ![]() The fools will be still fools, the knaves still leaders, the results still exploitation. Nothing will be different, except the name. ![]() If it is democracy, then the nine knaves will become members of parliament if fascism, they will become party leaders if communism, commissars. It is, moreover, the same thing for the sheep whatever the banner. It is pleasant to have command, observes Sancho Panza, even over a flock of sheep, and that is why the politicians raise their banners. The nine knaves assemble themselves under the banner of the most knavish among them, and become 'politicians' the wise man stands out, because he knows himself to be hopelessly outnumbered, and devotes himself to poetry, mathematics, or philosophy while the ninety fools plod off under the banners of the nine villains, according to fancy, into the labyrinths of chicanery, malice and warfare. ![]() ![]() “We find that at present the human race is divided into one wise man, nine knaves, and ninety fools out of every hundred. ![]()
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