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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

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Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they a...more

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Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creature...more

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Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creature...more

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Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creature...more

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I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, th...more

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One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain poss...more