
2005 February 17 - In a debate with DNC Chairman Howard Dean at Pacific University
2005 February 17 - In a debate with DNC Chairman Howard Dean at Pacific University
Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
Context: For a tribe to endure, it must find some way to achieve internal unity—and that way usually is external strife. The tribe exists at all times in a state of mobilization for war against its neighbors. The slightest incident, or often merely a desire to increase prestige, is enough to set off a skirmish, and in such circumstances hatred against external enemies must be unremitting.<!-- p. 97
Who Is a Free Man. What Is Freedom? http://parentingforeveryone.com/freeman/
Chelovek Svobodny (Free Man) (1994)
PBS, March 12, 1998 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/march98/intervention_3-12.html.
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999
“External pressure seems to produce internal unity.”
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter V, Some Implications Of The Second Image, p. 149
“A sensation is the feeling of an external stimulus or an internal condition.”
Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 6 : Our Souls
“External nature is only internal nature writ large.”
Pearls of Wisdom
Original French: Il faut étouffer les ennemis intérieurs et extérieurs de la République, ou périr avec elle ; or, dans cette situation, la première maxime de votre politique doit être qu’on conduit le peuple par la raison, et les ennemis du peuple par la terreur.
Speech to the National Convention (5 February 1794)