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“Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph”

States Natural Mankind Circumstances Civilization Triumph Unnatural Whim

Author:Robert E. Howard

“If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and...give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves.”

Source: Letters Papers from Prison

“Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.”

Men States Animal Laughing Mankind Dignity Legislature Humans And Animals State Legislatures

Author:Samuel Butler

“We must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we cannot impose our will upon the other 94 percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse every adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”

World States Facts Problem Faces United United States Mankind Solutions Percent Adversity Reverse Omnipotent Omniscient World Problems

Author:John F. Kennedy

“If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.”

Ifs States Speak Social Party Mankind Policy Morality Social Policy

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”

States Age Mankind Poet Spring Roots Fruit Innocent Golden Streams Never Ending Golden Age Garden Of Eden Nectar

Book:Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings

Source: Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings