Men are cruel, but Man is kind.

预测未来的最好方法就是创造它。

I don’t count my sit-ups, I only start counting when it starts hurting.

The state, therefore, has not existed from all eternity. There have been societies that did without it, that had no notion of the state or state power. At a certain stage of economic development, which was necessarily bound up with the split of society into classes, the state became a necessity.