"The future belongs to the people, and little by little or in one fellow swoop they will seize power, here and in the whole world. The bad thing is that they have to become civilized, and this can't happen before, but only after taking power. They will become civilized only by learning at the cost of their own errors, which will be serious ones, and which will cost many innocent lives. Or perhaps not, perhaps they won't be innocent, because they will have committed the enormous sin contra natura signified by lacking the capacity to adapt. All of them, all the unadaptable ones, you and I, for example, will die cursing the power we, with enormous sacrifice, helped to create...In its impersonal form, the revolution will take our lives, and even utilize the memory of that which for them remains exemplary, as a domesticating instrument for the youth who will come after. My sin is greater, because I, more subtle and with more experience, call it what you wish, will die knowing that my sacrifice is due only to obstinacy which symbolizes the rotten civilization which is crumbling..."