Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
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Nationality: Italian Type: Journalist Born: October 19, 1938 |
So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

