Character: Settembrini

I protest against this libel on the modern state, slander, if it means the satanic enslavement of personality! The third time, protesting, protesting against a painful dilemma - presscente or medieval reaction - you want to impose on us. The meaning of democracy in individualistic amendment to the absolutism of the state, any state. Truth and justice - most precious jewels of personal morality, and even though they are in other cases in conflict with the interests of the state, gaining visibility to hostile forces, but in reality they pursue higher, I'm not afraid to say it: the spiritual good of the state! The Renaissance marked the beginning of the deification of the state! Woeful logic! Conquest - I deliberately emphasize the etymological sense of the word - the conquest of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment is, sir, the emancipation of the individual, human rights, freedom.