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No one is...
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No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
Source: From the Other Shore, Epilogue 1849, of the failure of the revolutionary movements in Europe after 1848.
-- Alexander Herzen, (Apr 6 1812-1870), Russian author; He distrusted governments, was sceptical of western democratic forms, and had great faith in the power of peasants and other ordinary people to organise themselves.