The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
Will DurantIn philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.
Will DurantMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Will DurantWe conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive redistribution.
Will Durant