“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
“If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.”
The Ghost in the Machine (1967).
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