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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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“This attitude is basic human nature. We’d rather look outward and blame others for the ills that befall us than point the finger at ourselves.”
― Scion of Ikshvaku
― Scion of Ikshvaku
“I was reckless and foolhardy. I attacked without a plan, driven only by anger. I paid the price, didn’t I? My first defeat ever… And, my last battle, forever.”
― Scion of Ikshvaku
― Scion of Ikshvaku
“unwritten law for the truth seeker is patience; a master may purposely make a test of one’s eagerness to meet him. This psychological ruse is freely employed in the West by doctors and dentists!”
― 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
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