Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Future of Industrial Man (1942), p. 120
“Unquestionably society ought to be so organised as to render self-sacrifice superfluous, for as long as men exist who are ready and willing to make sacrifices, so long will egoists take advantage of these sacrifices.”
The Spirit of Russia
II
1919
Thomas
Garrigue Masaryk
Paul
Eden
Paul
Cedar
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