". . . [S]elf consciousness is Desire."^1a RIG VEDA

" . . . [T]here is posited a pure self-consciousness, and a consciousness which is not purely for itself but for another . . . The former is lord, the other is bondsman."^1b PLATO ARISTOTLE NEWTON MILL SANTAYANA KING [See Edward Ayoub's Quantum Theory of Economics.] AYOUB

"The masses are the victims of the deception of a priesthood which, in its envious conceit, holds itself to be the sole possessor of insight and pursues its other selfish ends as well. . . From the stupidity and confusion of the people brought about by the trickery of priestcraft, despotism, which despises both, draws for itself the advantage of undisturbed domination . . . "^1c* NEW TESTAMENT HUME MACHIAVELLI MILL NIETZSCHE GHENT GANDHI ORWELL

"As a living thing man may be coerced . . . ; but the free will cannot be coerced at all . . . Only the will which allows itself to be coerced can in any way be coerced."^2a

"When the standard of living of a large mass of people falls below a certain subsistence level . . . the result is the creation of a rabble of paupers. At the same time this brings with it . . . conditions which greatly facilitate the concentration of disproportionate wealth in a few hands."^2b

"The English . . . recognize the rational less in the form of universality than in that of individuality. . . For this reason, political freedom with the English exists mostly in the shape of privileges, of rights which are traditional, not derived from general ideas."^3a HOBBES

"In the formula, I=I, is enunciated the principle of absolute Reason and freedom."^3b BHAGAVAD GITA DESCARTES HEIDEGGER

"Truth aware of what it is, is mind (spirit)."^3c GANDHI

" . . . [W]hat experience and history teach is this - that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history . . . "^4a

"This is the seal of the absolute and sublime destiny of man - that he knows what is good and what is evil; that his Destiny is his very ability to will either good or evil . . . "^4b*

"Nations are what their deeds are."^4c

"Spirit is immortal: with it there is no past, no future, but an essential now. This necessarily implies that the present form of Spirit comprehends within it all earlier steps."^4d* OLD TESTAMENT UPANISHADS AUGUSTINE NIETZSCHE HEIDEGGER

* Italics in the original.   

¹ G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831). Phenomenology of Spirit. Translated by A.V. Miller with Analysis of the Text and Foreword by J.N. Findlay. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1977.
^a The Truth of Self-Certainty, at 109.
^b Independence and Dependence of Self-Consciousness: Lordship and Bondage, at 115.
^c The Struggle of the Enlightenment with Superstition, at 330.

² G. W. F. Hegel. Hegel's Philosophy of Right. Translated with Notes by T.M. Knox. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1967.
^a Coercion and Crime, at 66.
^b Police [or the public authority], at 150.

³ G. W. F. Hegel. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind. Part Three of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830). Translated by William Wallace. Together with the Zusätze in Boumann's Text (1845) translated by A.V. Miller. Foreword by J.N. Findlay. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1971.
^a Anthropology, at 50.
^b Self-Consciousness, at 165.
^c Reason, at 178.

⁴ G. W. F. Hegel. The Philosophy of History. Translated by J. Sibree. Prefaces by Charles Hegel and J. Sibree. Introduction by C.J. Friedrich. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1956.
^a Introduction, at 6.
^b Introduction, at 34.
^c Introduction, at 74.
^d Introduction, at 79.