“It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.” EndsAgeFoundIndividualDarkLordAdvantageProtectionFlightAppropriateChaptersRecallsFoldsDark Ages Book:The Ethics of Redistribution Source: The Ethics of Redistribution
“We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished into slavery. Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.” ArtWould BeFoundLostSlaveryBurningSavagesStarvingInvasionBarbariansSuperfluousLost Art Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth
“Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.” YearsHas BeensTodayFallFoundGoneVirtueMagicRevolutionThousandTenYears AgoRegimesThousand YearsDefiance Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth
