Desiderius Erasmus 1517
'I enter the court of kings...I see every outward sign of the highest offices and humanity....It is all paint and varnish. Everything is corrupted by open faction, or by secret grudges and animosities.'
'...they stab one another with pens dipped in the venom of malice.'
Cyril Joad late 20th century.
'Modern civilization is the result of endowing with the fruits of a dozen men of genius a population which is emotionally at the level of savages and culturally at the level of schoolboys.'
Further thoughts:
'Civilisation is a thin veneer over animal instincts and easily overturned.'
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