segunda-feira, 19 de novembro de 2012

Discourse on Inequality

The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, took it into his head to say, 'This is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. The human race would have been spared endless crimes, wars, murders, and horrors if someone had pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow man, 'Do not listen to this impostor! You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to everyone, and the earth to no one!

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