... the mob, loses all homogeneity, and thereby becomes unintelligible and impossible of execution. We Are Despots 21. It is only with a despotic ruler that plans can be elaborated extensively and clearly in such a way as to distribute the whole properly among the several parts of the machinery of the State: from this the conclusion is inevitable that a satisfactory form of government for any country is...

... and trade: this is already being put in execution by an unseen hand in all quarters of the world. This freedom will give political force to those engaged in industry, and that will help to oppress the people. Nowadays it is more important to disarm the peoples than to lead them into war: more important to use for our advantage the passions which have burst into flames than to quench their fire: more...

...-State 3. For us there are not checks to limit the range of our activity. Our Super-Government subsists in extra-legal conditions which are described in the accepted terminology by the energetic and forcible word - Dictatorship. I am in a position to tell you with a clear conscience that at the proper time, we, the law-givers, shall execute judgment and sentence, we shall slay and we shall spare, we...

... classes. In this way, by inculcating in all a sense of self-importance, we shall destroy among the goyim the importance of the family and its educational value and remove the possibility of individual minds splitting off, for the mob, handled by us, will not let them come to the front nor even give them a hearing; it is accustomed to listen to us only who pay it for obedience and attention. In this way...

... shall slay without mercy all who take arms (in hand) to oppose our coming into our kingdom. Every kind of new institution of anything like a secret society will also be punished with death; those of them which are now in existence, are known to us, serve us and have served us, we shall disband and send into exile to continents far removed from Europe. In this way we shall proceed with those goy Masons...

... against our disposition. While preaching liberalism to the goy we at the same time keep our own people and our agents in a state of unquestioningly submission. 10. Under our influence the execution of the laws of the goyim has been reduced to a minimum. The prestige of the law has been exploded by the liberal interpretations introduced into this sphere. In the most important and fundamental affairs and...

... rejoiced that we have regulated everything in their lives as is done by wise parents who desire to train children in the cause of duty and submission. For the peoples of the world in regard to the secrets of our polity are ever through the ages only children under age, precisely as are also their governments. 21. As you see, I found our despotism on right and duty: the right to compel the execution of...

... those principles which have so brilliantly broken up their order. But when we are in power we shall remove every kind of disturbing subject from the course of education and shall make out of the youth obedient children of authority, loving him who rules as the support and hope of peace and quiet. We shall change history 4. Classicism as also any form of study of ancient history, in which there are...

... law-business in the interests of justice and as counterpoise to the proctor who will be the reporter in the interests of prosecution; this will shorten business before the courts. In this way will be established a practice of honest unprejudiced defense conducted not from personal interest but by conviction. This will also, by the way, remove the present practice of corrupt bargain between...

... order to destroy the prestige of heroism for political crime we shall send it for trial in the category of thieving, murder, and every kind of abominable and filthy crime. Public opinion will then confuse in its conception of this category of crime with the disgrace attaching to every other and will brand it with the same contempt. 4. We have done our best, and I hope we have succeeded to obtain that...

..., and in it the ruler will find at any moment a full accounting for State income and expenditure, with the exception of the current monthly account, not yet made up, and that of the preceding month, which will not yet have been delivered. 18. The one and only person who will have no interest in robbing the State is its owner, the ruler. This is why his personal control will remove the possibility of...

... societies demoralized by us, societies that have denied even the authority of God, from whose midst breads out on all sides the fire of anarchy, must first of all proceed to quench this all-devouring flame. Therefore, he will be obliged to kill off those existing societies, though he should drench them with his own blood, that he may resurrect them again in the form of regularly organized troops fighting...

... where his "enemies" had met, recorded this conversation. A contemporary writer who claims to have been present at the meeting, Mr. Hodding Carter, says, "The 'plotting' was limited to such hopefully expressed comments as, 'I wish somebody would kill the . . . .' ". 320 Wilson, and, like Mr. Wilson, he promised from election to election to keep it out of these. Meanwhile, the uproar...

... diplomat, Herr von Rath, in Paris. Riots followed in Germany, synagogues were burned, and Mr. Pirow's mission abruptly ended. No investigation into the murder, or any organization that might have been behind it, was held, or if one was begun it never produced any informative result; Rabbi Wise presents the familiar picture (found also in Mr. House's novel) of the "half-crazed youth", maddened...

.... Roosevelt did not comment on the murder) and the central sentence is demonstrably untrue, because Mr. Roosevelt, and all his contemporaries, had earlier seen the wanton destruction of religious edifices. True, they had not been synagogues, but Mr. Roosevelt had "seen" the dynamiting of Christian churches and cathedrals in Communized Russia, and on becoming president had rushed to recognize the...

... mitigation of Jewish suffering in Germany. The murder of von Rath in Paris was the shot of Serajevo which in effect opened the second war, as the developing fluid, time, now reveals. Unlike Mr. Wilson, Mr. Roosevelt never privately believed that he would keep his country 323 neutral; in 1938 his mentor, Mr. Bernard Baruch, declared "We are going to lick that fellow Hitler; he isn't going to get away...

... think they could not live without. They not only beat her, they even imagine many times killing her; otherwise, the wife is going to kill him. It is only a question of who takes the initiative; it is a cold war. Slowly slowly, things get cooler: no more pillow fights, no more breaking of cups and glasses and saucers. But that does not mean that they have come to a harmony. That simply means they have...

... station, and move there and live peacefully." He said, "But... alone with this woman on a hill station? You are suggesting a murder!" I said, "What are you talking about? Who is going to murder whom?" He said, "That depends on who takes the initiative first. With this woman alone? -- no! If you are willing to stay with us, I could be safe, I could go to any hill station...

... praying?' And he shouted so loudly and it seemed he was going to hit me!" The other man said, "Calm down. You asked in the wrong way. I asked him also; I asked him, `Sir, can I pray while smoking?' and he said, `That's perfectly good, there is no harm in that.'" Just a slight change, but it makes lot of difference. Start collecting all that is happening to you that is beautiful. And it is...

... clothes, doing all kinds of things the whole day long that nobody in the home is ready to do. Her life is simply the life of a slave. That woman said to Gautam Buddha, "Either give life back to my son or kill me." Buddha said, "Don't be worried. I will bring your son back to life, but you have to do a small thing." She said, "I will do anything, just tell me." He said...

... can go on doing whatsoever they are doing. God standing just there... and you were going to hit your husband with the pillow... it doesn't look right. But he is standing there - that's what millions of believers think, that he is everywhere present. So remember: when you are hitting, look around and hit some suspicious place where you think God might be, rather than hitting a poor husband! Meher...

... made many things illegal in the past, and what have you prevented? Has theft disappeared? Has murder disappeared? Is rape something of the past? You cannot stop it with your laws because you have never stopped anything with your laws. You are just befooling the masses, making a law so people feel the government is doing something. But they don't see that what they are doing, they have been doing for...

... saying to people is absolutely right, misery is the difference. There are one million sannyasins. Not a single sannyasin has yet been killed by anybody. I received threats every day for thirty years that they are going to kill me. They have even tried three times, made attempts to kill me and failed. What can I do about it? Those are idiots. They should come first and ask me, "How to kill you...

... where I was sitting. They should have asked me, "At what time are you coming? - because we have to fix the time bomb at the exact time." I would have told them; they did not ask me. I arrived one hour earlier - what could the time bomb do? The poor time bomb waited. I left and then they had to remove the bomb. Don't be scared; there is nothing to be afraid of. The whole existence is with you...

... the students. One of the greatest contemporary Christian missionaries was Stanley Jones. He used to come to India once in a while on his world tours. We became very friendly. He used to have each speech typed on small cards - ten or twelve or fifteen cards, different points on each card - and he would keep those cards on the table. He would finish the first card, then remove the first card, then...

...; if the urge is strong, then it may not even be difficult. A sergeant in the army has been trained in a certain way, disciplined in a certain way; he is trained and disciplined to kill, or to be killed. And enlightenment also needs you to be ready to be killed. There is no need to kill anybody, but it needs you to be killed. The sergeant's whole discipline and training can be used; he can kill his...

... is natural - Krishnamurti himself suffers from headaches! For fifty years continuously he has suffered from headaches, severe headaches, not ordinary; for days they continue. Sometimes they become so serious that he wants to hit his head against the wall! And the reason is that he has dropped everything - as you say, Virago - but now a new attachment has arisen in him, the attachment to non...

... are looking silly, look silly in a better way. Defeat everybody else!" My new man means the end of the old world. So it is not only a question of my being decried and opposed in India - I will be decried and opposed anywhere else. In fact, I have chosen India for a particular reason: here people are so lethargic. Even if they want to kill me they will take twenty, thirty years! By that time I...

... will have done my work - I will have done the harm. It is not for no reason that I have chosen India: people are lethargic. Just a few days ago a man threw a knife at me to kill me. Now, such a knife can be thrown only in India! When it fell just in front of me I thought it was a stone. My eyes are not bad, I don't need glasses yet: I can see very clearly. I thought it was just a stone - it looked so...

... nor London nor Paris nor Bombay nor Calcutta nor Peking nor Moscow - no city has been able to achieve that peak of culture, sophistication, civilization, that Athens did. But why did such cultured people become so animalistic, so barbarous as to kill a man like Socrates? He was talking about the new man. If he had talked about the better man he would have been worshipped.. Those who have talked...

... eaten, he had not even taken a cup of water. Time was so precious! Thirst is not going to kill you just in one day, hunger is not going to kill you just in one day. He was going to rest in a garden just outside of the city. He went into the garden and was tying the horse to a tree, and was thanking the horse, because the horse was really perhaps the best horse in the world. He was thanking the horse...

... suddenly the naked truth, you are going to be against the person who has brought you such a shocking gift. You would like to believe that it is not true, but you know it is. Hence the anger; otherwise there is no need to kill Socrates. If you are right, and you know that you are right, then let this man befool himself with his "truth" - it does not matter to you. The people of Athens believed...

... for my life and it is here, ready - you cut off my head But truth...? Yes, I have got it, but the very quality of truth is such that it cannot be given. Not that I don't want to give it to you; I am absolutely willing. "If you can take it, take it. You can kill me; if you find it inside me, so far so good - I am ready. I will be happy that I had the chance to serve you so intimately and so...

... to answer for it. So those who are caught by the law, the law will punish, and those who are somehow not caught by law - and of course the law cannot catch you if you are thinking a bad thought, fantasizing something. Even if you are fantasizing a murder, it is not illegal, it is not a crime; the law cannot punish you. The law can punish you only when your thought becomes an action. But religions...

..., messiahs. For example, Jesus says, "Love your enemy." He himself cannot love, neither can his God do that. It is such a simple thing: if God loves His enemies then the sinners should be sent to paradise, not to hell. And the whole bogus theology falls with a single hit, nothing much is needed. If God loves His enemies, then what about the devil? The devil is God's archenemy - He should make him...

... non-violent method. The police cannot interfere, the government cannot interfere. The father was in trouble, thinking, "This is something strange. If he dies I am condemned for my whole life. People will say, 'You killed that man.' The murder is on my head. And I cannot let this man get married to my daughter. He has no merit, no qualification he is a beggar, a criminal." Two or three days...

... give in, otherwise that man will die on your floor and you are condemned forever. And nobody is going to marry your daughter either, remember, because a murder is on you, on your daughter: you killed a poor man."' So finally he thought it was better to ask some Gandhian, an old Gandhian. The Gandhian said, "It is very simple - just use a Gandhian technique against a Gandhian technique. I...

... prove how the existent God died. Nietzsche never argued further and the theists are not capable of raising significant questions. The whole of western Christianity was shocked by the statement that God is dead. They were angry, they would have liked to kill Friedrich Nietzsche. But nobody asked him, 4You have accepted the primary existence of God, now you have to explain how He died And if He was God...

... particularly, against Jesus. But God is the foundation of all these, so he has to hit God to demolish the whole edifice of the only begotten son, the messiah, the pope, the church, and the whole ugly history of Christianity. Without God it all becomes absurd. That s the reason he says God is dead, but deep down he knows God is. My situation is totally different. I am not against God. I have been searching...

... - mystifying everything. It is not a difficult job because people have forced demystifications on things; I simply remove the cover, the patchwork, and I give you the raw life as it is. There is no answer anywhere which is ultimate. And there will never be any answer which will solve all the problems; hence, God is an impossibility because God means the ultimate answer. And it is good that there is no God...

..., otherwise we would be condemned. Then there would be no possibility of any joy, freedom, exploration, ecstasy - no possibility for anything. God would have killed everything. So I say to you, even if God was there then I would have trained you in how to kill Him. But fortunately He is not there, so we are saved from being in any way violent; otherwise that one violence I would have allowed. Even though I...