"The formidable vice that heralds the fall of empires is the antagonism that divides our society into different enemy camps."
"The struggle to which I refer is not the one that arises from personal questions or incidental quarrels between a few great persons disputing for influence and power. Rather, it exists in the smallest subdivisions of the social body, in the village, workshop, and family."
"The evil consists above all in this, that the superior classes, instead of acting together to lead society into a better path, mutually neutralize one another by attempting to make contrary political principles prevail by force at the risk of destroying the social order."
"This antagonism rages both in private and public life."
"It has developed to the point where persons attached to the same enterprises in industry and commerce believe themselves to have diametrically opposed interests..."
"...while others, who might be in a position to devote themselves to the common good, refuse to cooperate, even unofficially, with a government that lacks their sympathy."
"This last sentiment presents a source of greater danger. If it were to spread, it would eventually destroy our most precious heritage: the national spirit we owe to the genius of our fathers." -Frédéric Le Play
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