Machiavelli – The Rulers vs The Ruled and the Struggle for Power
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Watch now (11 min) | “Daring as it is to investigate the unknown, even more so it is to question the known.” Kaspar It is often said that to understand the present we must understand the past. For history is our greatest teacher and one thing it teaches us is that mankind is a fallible species. Our past is as much defined by the truths we have discovered as by the errors we have lived by. But while it can be easy to recognize the mistakes of generations past, it is much more difficult to see the errors in our own ways and for this reason we must be willing to continually question the known.
"Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."
My heart fluttered a little as you spoke this line.
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