The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
For the future. For the unborn.
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.