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David Webb
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“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“It is not the race that makes the civilization, it is the civilization that makes the people: circumstances geographical, economic, and political create a culture, and the culture creates a human type.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas.”
― Elric: The Stealer of Souls
― Elric: The Stealer of Souls
“you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“If race or class war divides us into hostile camps, changing political argument into blind hate, one side or the other may overturn the hustings with the rule of the sword. If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
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