The Starting-point Of Critical Elaboration Is The

It Indicates A Person Who Has Not Only Good Manners But Who Possesses A Sense Of Balance, A Sure Mastery Of Himself, A Moral Discipline That Permits Him To Subordinate Voluntarily His Own Selfish Interest To The Wider Interests Of The Society In Which He Lives. The Gentleman, Therefore Is A Cultural Person In The Noblest Sense Of The Word, If By Culture We Mean Not Simply Wealth Of Intellectual Knowledge But Also The Ability To Fulfil One's Duty And Understand One's Fellow Man By Respecting / Every Principle, Every Opinion, Every Faith That Is Sincerely Professed.

A Social Group Can, Indeed Must, Already Exercise 'leadership' Before Winning Governmental Power (this Is Indeed One Of The Principal Conditions For The Winning Of Such Power); It Subsequently Becomes Dominant When It Exercises Power, But Even If It Holds It Firmly In Its Grasp, It Must Continue To 'lead' As Well.

Indifference Is The Dead Weight Of History.

Destruction Is Difficult. It Is As Difficult As Creation.

How Many Times Have I Wondered If It Is Really Possible To Forge Links With A Mass Of People When One Has Never Had Strong Feelings For Anyone, Not Even One's Own Parents: If It Is Possible To Have A Collectivity When One Has Not Been Deeply Loved Oneself By Individual Human Creatures. Hasn't This Had Some Effect On My Life As A Militant--has It Not Tended To Make Me Sterile And Reduce My Quality As A Revolutionary By Making Everything A Matter Of Pure Intellect, Of Pure Mathematical Calculation?