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The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

#any #bound #children #duty #empowered

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#christians #conspicuous #desire #discriminate #distinctions

The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#big #civilized #discovery #first #life

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#anti #ascent #christianity #civilization #conditions

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#authority #be true #because #believed #central

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#even #liberty #organization #over #peace

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#every #every man #his #instinctive #liberty

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#becoming #changing #civilization #complicated #define

No tribe unites with another of its own free will. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#free #free will #own #tribe #unites

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#been #evolving #force #form #hitherto