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The belief that violence has increased suggests that the world we made has contaminated us, perhaps irretrievably. The belief that it has decreased suggests that we started off nasty and that the artifices of civilization have moved us in a
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“Outward frailty has mental origin; in a vicious circle, the habit-bound body thwarts the mind.”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“reason, by itself, is just a means of getting from one true proposition to the next and does not care about the value of those propositions.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“Though truth-telling sheds no blood, it requires a painful emotional sacrifice on the part of the confessors in the form of shame, guilt, and a unilateral disarmament of their chief moral weapon, the claim to innocence.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“no individual can afford to be the only honest one in a community of self-enhancers.89”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity
“To the proud, the pretence of noble compliance is better than admittance of failure.”
― Scion of Ikshvaku
― Scion of Ikshvaku
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