"If one looks with a cold eye at……" — Arthur Koestler

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has… - Arthur Koestler

"If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats."

— Arthur Koestler

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton
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I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have… — Julian of Norwich
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