Words no longer hold meaning and this makes our current problems intractable: Democracy, Socialism and Liberty all signify more or less whatever we wish... and the same can be said for the rest of them. And we talk about History, accommodated to the tastes of a hundred nations...
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...and distorted at the mercy of conflicting passions. We can't even agree on statements, statements vary, the terms always reflecting on implied meanings and changing depending on the situation;...
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...the large assemblies committed to find some manner of bringing people together seem more a desert where nil, nothingness alternates freely with ideological clouds.
~ Albert Caraco, The Races and the Classes