A critique of the new commonplaces.

The commonplaces --
We must follow the current of history --
You can't act without getting your hands dirty --
The main thing is to be sincere with yourself --
Peoples have the right to self-determination --
The people have come of age --
Modern man has come of age --
You can't make a people revolt against its will --
Politics first! --
From personal democracy to organized (or mass) democracy --
Public interest comes before private interest --
Nobody can help anybody else --
We have been deceived --
If all the good guys in the world --
Work is freedom --
Women find their freedom (dignity) in work --
No freedom for the enemies of freedom --
Freedom is obeying necessity --
The spiritual side of life cannot develop until the standard of living is raised --
No more words: give us acts! --
Anyway, it's a fact! --
You can't make art out of noble sentiments --
Anyone who says he is neither a rightest nor a leftist is a rightist --
Its sacred --
The machine is a neutral object and man is its master --
It is fashionable to criticize technology --
All science is numerical --
One must take a positive attitude --
There are one billion illiterates --
You are what you are --
Cultivate your personality: be a person! --
Make way for youth! --
We don't want charity: we want justice --
The end justifies the means.