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“For man is poor. Irremediably. We *are* poverty, buffeted between desire and disgust.”
― Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

“Most people living in rich, stable developed countries have no idea how Denmark itself got to be Denmark—something that is true for many Danes as well. The struggle to create modern political institutions was so long and so painful that people living in industrialized countries now suffer from a historical amnesia regarding how their societies came to that point in the first place.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

“Politics has a single purpose: to respond to man's terrors. That's why, when the state is no longer able to protect its citizens from fear, the very basis of its existence is called into question.”
― Giuliano da Empoli, Le Mage du Kremlin

“In the post-historical period there will be neither art nor philosophy, just the perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man