“Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.”
Source: Seraphita (1835), Ch. 3: Seraphita - Seraphitus.
“History has a Nemesis for every sin—for an impotent craving after freedom, as well as for an injudicious generosity.”
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“All power, as well as all the impotence of democracy is based on faith”
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(1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer
The History of Rome
Section 28
The True Believer (1951), Part Two: The Potential Converts
Context: Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society. The frustrated, oppressed by their shortcomings, blame their failure on existing restraints. Actually, their innermost desire is for an end to the "free for all." They want to eliminate free competition and the ruthless testing to which the individual is continually subjected in a free society.
