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Put another way by Terry Pratchett,

"And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up."




Please! It's Brecht:

  Would it not be easier
  In that case for the government
  To dissolve the people
  And elect another?
Poem in Die Welt (1959)


Ha, nice! Thanks, I love finding out about the origins of his aphorisms.


Aka The problem with humanity is all of the humans.




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