The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
— H. L. Mencken
Franklin King MDtwitter.comThe urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. — H. L. Mencken
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. . . . To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior “righteous indignation”—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”... See more
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Gurwinder • 25 Useful Ideas for 2025
Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Everything for oneself, everything for personal utility: a pleasure in cruelty toward the weak and toward animals. This is the end-result of thousands of years of “civilization.”