"The Communists, following Hegel, speak of humanity and its future as of some monolithic individuality. I was attacking this illusion."

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I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.

— Henry David Thoreau