Civilizations Decline Quotes

“Colonialists respect nothing. They would take creatures royal in their primitive beauty, serene in their ignorance, and noble in their qaked simplicity, and would twist them out of shape, distort their minds, contaminate them with their own ideologies and abstractions.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“{T}here is a very discernible gulf between political history and actual history. If this were not true, then we would all be afforded the opportunity to choose between different libraries much as we have the ability to choose different political parties.”
― Michael Hastings