Tünaydınn
Gerçekte kim olduğumuzu unuttuk. Uyum gösterip iyi birer vatandaş, çocuk ve öğrenci olduk. Isyan etsek bile bu dış güçlere karşı bir tepkiydi. İçimizdeki kendimize yönelik neşe, güven ve sevgiyi yitirdik.
We forgot who we really are. We adapted and became good citizens, children and students. Even if we rebelled, it was a reaction against external forces. We have lost the joy, trust and love for ourselves.
They are planning
"Nihilistleri ve Ateistleri serbest bırakacağız ve tüm dehşetiyle uluslara (farklı milletlerden insanlara), mutlak ateizmin etkilerini, vahşetin ve en kanlı kargaşanın kökenini açıkça gösterecek müthiş bir toplumsal felaketi kışkırtacağız. O zaman her yerde, kendilerini dünya azınlığına veya devrimcilerine karşı savunmak zorunda olan
They are planning.....Kitabı okudu
The uneasy citizens of Raccoon dwelled behind those locked doors, waiting for the announcement that the killers had been apprehended and that their city was safe.
If they only knew...
A population should be free of hatred, fear and subservience. Teaching obedience above all produces either rebels or slaves, not proper citizens who assert opinion up to a point but no further (that is, not resorting to violence or refusal to compromise)...Beware of talk of principle, self-sacrifice and heroic devotion as a disguise for hatred, fear and revenge...
More to the point, Greece was not the birthplace of liberty as we understand it today. Liberty in the modern world is first and fore- most the freedom of the individual from arbitrary authority, which has meant, for most of history, from the brute power of the state. It implies certain basic human rights: freedom of expression, of associ ation, and of worship, and rights of due process. But ancient liberty, as the enlightenment philosopher Benjamin Constant explained, meant something different: that everyone (actually, every male citizen) had the right to participate in the governance of the community. Usually all citizens served in the legislature or, if this was impractical, legislators were chosen by lottery, as with American juries today. The people's assemblies of ancient Greece had unlimited powers. An individual's rights were neither sacred in theory nor protected in fact. Greek democracy often meant, in Constant's phrase, "the subjection of the individual to the authority of the community." Recall that in the fourth century B.C. in Athens, where Greek democracy is said to have found its truest expression, the popular assembly-by democratic vote-put to death the greatest philosopher of the age because of his teachings. The execution of Socrates was democratic but not liberal.
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