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“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.”
― Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth

“I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter.”
― Johann Georg Hamann

“When an organism appears to be acting against its own genetic interests, we may safely assume that it has probably fallen under the control of some other entity, typically a parasite, which has hijacked the host and is directing its activities toward different ends.”
― Ron Unz, American Pravda Series

“Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.”
― Joseph de Maistre, St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence