Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wikipedia - Goethe on National Greatness
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ludwig von Mises Institute - The Politics of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Ludwig von Mises Insitute - Autobiography
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gutenberg.org - Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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