The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Erich Fromm (2013). “May Man Prevail?: An Inquiry into the Facts and Fictions of Foreign Policy”, Open Road Media
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