"The world is run by 1 million evil men, 10 million stupid men, and 100 million cowards. The evil men are the power – the rich men and the politicians, and the fanatics of religion – – whose decisions rule the world, and set it on its course of greed and destruction. ... The stupid men, who number ten million, are the soldiers and policemen who enforce the rule of the evil men. ... They are often brave, I'm sure, but they are stupid, too, because they give their lives for governments and causes that use their flesh and blood as mere chess pieces. Those governments always betray them or let them down or abandon them, in the long run. ... And the hundred million cowards, they are the bureaucrats and paper shufflers and pen-pushers who permit the rule of the evil men, and look the other way. ... They are managers, and officials, and mayors, and officers of the court. They always defend themselves by saying that they are just following orders, or just doing their job, and it's nothing personal, and if they don't do it, someone else surely will. They are the hundred million cowards who know what is going on, but say nothing, while they sign the paper that puts one man before a firing squad, or condemns one million men to the slower death of a famine."
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