Sublime

He held center stage through the 1850s; he had overshadowed them all—Silliman, Dana, Henry, Hall, Gray. The voice of Charles Darwin was still to be heard.

Mais le contrôle de l’État sur les médias mine la logique de Lincoln parce qu’il empêche les citoyens de prendre conscience de la vérité. Par son monopole sur les médias, l’oligarchie régnante peut imputer de façon répétée ses échecs à d’autres et détourner l’attention sur des menaces extérieures – réelles ou imaginaires.

History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.

“Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.” After years o

The last few decades have been the most peaceful era in human history. Whereas in early agricultural societies human violence caused up to 15 percent of all human deaths, and in the twentieth century it caused 5 percent, today it is responsible for only 1 percent.

The American learns to know the laws by participating in the act of legislation;