Today I Believe In The Possibility Of

What I Call Middle-class Society Is Any Society That Becomes Rigidified In Predetermined Forms, Forbidding All Evolution, All Gains, All Progress, All Discovery. I Call Middle-class A Closed Society In Which Life Has No Taste, In Which The Air Is Tainted, In Which Ideas And Men Are Corrupt. And I Think That A Man Who Takes A Stand Against This Death Is In A Sense A Revolutionary.

Everything Can Be Explained To The People, On The Single Condition That You Want Them To Understand.

My Intimate Knowledge Of Many Central African Tribes Has Everywhere Convinced Me Of The Necessity That The Negro Does Not Respect Treaties But Only Brute Force.”• General Adrian Dietrich Lothar Von Trotha On German South West Africa “at The Level Of Individuals, Violence Is A Cleansing Force. It Frees The Native From His Inferiority Complex And From His Despair And Inaction, It Makes Him Fearless And Restores His Self-respect.

I Ascribe A Basic Importance To The Phenomenon Of Language. To Speak Means To Be In A Position To Use A Certain Syntax, To Grasp The Morphology Of This Or That Language, But It Means Above All To Assume A Culture, To Support The Weight Of A Civilization.

The Unpreparedness Of The Educated Classes, The Lack Of Practical Links Between Them And The Mass Of The People, Their Laziness, And, Let It Be Said, Their Cowardice At The Decisive Moment Of The Struggle Will Give Rise To Tragic Mishaps.