"Every Orgenization rests upon a mountain of secrets. Abhi SharmaPage 103 Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims. Vanity in a newspaper man is like perfume on a whore: they use it to fend off a dark whiff of themselves. True information does good. The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist. The goal is justice, the method is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method. Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India - a nation I love. We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us. But we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up. These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase. Abhi SharmaPage 104 KBack to Content List Karl Marx Abhi SharmaPage 105 Karl Marx Question everything. A hugely influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher, Marx did not live to see his ideas carried out in his own lifetime, but his writings formed the theoretical base for modern international communism. Karl Heinrich Marx was born on 5 May 1818 in Trier in western German, the son of a successful Jewish lawyer. Marx studied law in Bonn and Berlin, but was also introduced to the ideas of Hegel and Feuerbach. In 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. In 1843, after a short spell as editor of a liberal newspaper in Cologne, Marx and his wife Jenny moved to Paris, a hotbed of radical thought. There he became a revolutionary communist and befriended his life long collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Expelled from France, Marx spent two years in Brussels, where his partnership with Engels intensified. They co-authored the pamphlet 'The Communist Manifesto' which was published in 1848 and asserted that all human history had been based on class struggles, but that these would ultimately disappear with the victory of the proletariat. In 1849, Marx moved to London, where he was to spend the remainder of his life. For a number of years, his family lived in poverty but the wealthier Engels was able to support them to an increasing extent. Gradually, Marx emerged from his political and spiritual isolation and produced his most important body of work, 'Das Kapital'. The first volume of this 'bible of the working class' was published in his lifetime, while the remaining volumes were edited by Engels after his friend's death. In his final years, Karl Marx was in creative and physical decline. He spent time at health spas and was deeply distressed by the death of his wife, in 1881, and one of his daughters. He died on 14 March 1883 and was buried at Highgate Cemetery in London. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. Abhi SharmaPage 106 The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. Democracy is the road to socialism. All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness. Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism. The task is not just to understand the world but to change it. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. Abhi SharmaPage 107 LBack to Content List Leo Tolstoy Abhi SharmaPage 108 Leo Tolstoy When joy disappears, look for your mistake.Lev Nikolaevich (Leo) Tolstoy (1828-1910). A Russian novelist, reformer, and moral thinker. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, the Tolstoy family estate a hundred miles south of Moscow, on August 28. He died on November 20 at a nearby railroad station, having fled in the night from an increasingly contentious marriage and a set of familial relationships that had been hardened in large part by Tolstoy's attempts to apply his radical moral beliefs to his own life. In the intervening eighty-two years Tolstoy became perhaps the most prominent novelist in an age and place of great authors as well as a vociferous critic of science and modernization. Tolstoy's international fame rests primarily on two novels, War and Peace (1865-1869) and Anna Karenina (1875-1877). His fictional works also include short masterpieces such as"