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61 " Morals are the rules by which a society exhorts (as laws are the rules by which it seeks to compel) its members and associations to behavior consistent with its order, "
― Will Durant , The Lessons of History
62 " All strong characters and peoples are race conscious and are instinctively averse to marriage outside their own racial group. "
63 " The idea of hell disappeared from educated thought, even from pulpit homilies. Presbyterians became ashamed of the Westminster Confession, which had pledged them to belief in a God who had created billions of men and women despite his foreknowledge that, regardless of their virtues and crimes, they were predestined to everlasting hell. "
64 " Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, they (bankers) know that history is inflationary, and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. "
65 " The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding”5 "
66 " علينا أن نتقبل كل هذه الاحتمالات، ونرد على الكون بكلمات باسكال: "عندما يحطمه العالم،سيظل الإنسان أنبل من العالم الذي قتله؛ لأنه يعلم بمقتله وهذا شرفه، ذلك أن الكون لا يعلم شيئاً" .. "
67 " The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and the laws. Despotism may for a time retard the concentration; democracy, allowing the most liberty, "
68 " So the first biological lesson of history is that life is competition. "
69 " As long as there is poverty, there will be gods "
70 " Since wealth is an order and procedure of production and exchange rather than an accumulation of (mostly perishable) goods, and is a trust (the “credit system”) in men and institutions rather than in the intrinsic value of paper money or checks, violent revolutions do not so much redistribute wealth as destroy it. "
71 " The father gets accustomed to descend to the level of his sons and to fear them, and the son to be on a level with his father, having no shame or fear of his parents…. The teacher fears and flatters his scholars, and the scholars despise their masters and tutors…. The old do not like to be thought morose and authoritative, and therefore they imitate the young…. "
72 " only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed. "
73 " It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that “you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. Is "
74 " Social evolution is an interplay of custom with origination. "
75 " Inequality is not only natural and inborn, it grows with the complexity of civilization. Hereditary inequalities breed social and artificial inequalities; every invention or discovery is made or seized by the exceptional individual, and makes the strong stronger, the weak relatively weaker, than before. Economic development specializes functions, differentiates abilities, and makes men unequally valuable to their group. "
76 " life must breed. "
77 " Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. "
78 " If the human brood is too numerous for the food supply, Nature has three agents for restoring the balance: famine, pestilence, and war. "
79 " In the third and following centuries of our era various Celtic, Teutonic, or Asiatic tribes laid Italy waste and destroyed the classic cultures. The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary of history. "
80 " There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education. "