History is politics projected into the past. – M.N. Pokrovsky
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The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. – Albert J. Nock
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. – Bertrand Russell
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. – John Charles Polanyi
For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use. – Alfred Nobel
