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“Our word “lord” comes from the Old English hlaford, or “loafward,” he who guarded the bread supply — and was expected to share it.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History Of Progress

“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and boundless confidence in their religion to take care of the future. The result was an ecological disaster leading to a population crash…. Do we have to repeat the experiment on [a] grand scale?… Is the human personality always the same as that of the person who felled the last tree?”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History Of Progress

“This trait has direct animal precursors – namely, the contests between competing individuals and groups that, in many species besides our own, may be resolved by murder.”
― Jared Diamond, The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee: how our animal heritage affects the way we live

“The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible ….” So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History Of Progress