"Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home."

-- Jared Diamond

#Home Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Conquest Quotes

“If the curriculum we use to teach our children does not connect in positive ways to the culture young people bring to school, it is doomed to failure.”

Source : Lisa Delpit (2012). “"Multiplication Is for White People": Raising Expectations for Other People's Children”, p.23, New Press, The
“A people [America] that does not prepare to fight should then be morally prepared to surrender. To fail to prepare soldiers and citizens for limited, bloody ground action, and then to engage in it, is folly verging on the criminal.”

Source : T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War”, p.480, Open Road Media
“Arrogance is an exaggeration of the truth.”

Source : Source: monstersupplements.com
“If you're not nervous then you're not paying attention.”
“Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.”
“The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.”

Source : America and Cosmic Man ch. 2 (1948)
“I never know when somebody's going to knock on the door of my own unconscious in a way that I wouldn't have anticipated.”
“It's not fear that keeps me up. I mean, every generation has thought, this is the worst generation; the world's going to hell in a hand basket. The reality is, people are living longer, and they're living better.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

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