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Book cover for Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future
I argue in this book that asking why the West rules is really a question about what I will call social development. By this I basically mean societies’ abilities to get things done—to shape their physical, economic, social, and intellectual ...more
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Ray Bradbury
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury

Niccolò Machiavelli
“When evening has come, I return to my house and go into my study. At the door I take off my clothes of the day, covered with mud and mire, and I put on my regal and courtly garments; and decently reclothed, I enter the ancient courts of ancient men, where, received by them lovingly, I feed on the food that alone is mine and that I was born for. There I am not ashamed to speak with them and to ask them the reason for their actions; and they in their humanity reply to me. And for the space of four hours I feel no boredom, I forget every pain, I do not fear poverty, death does not frighten me. I deliver myself entirely to them.”
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

Richard Dawkins
“Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It’s a sort of crime against childhood.”
Richard Dawkins

Edward Gibbon
“The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.”
Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Tacitus
“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”
Tacitus

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