Jojo Lapin X Wrote:
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> I would have posted this on the Robert E Howard
> Forum, but, well, I was banned there years ago,
> and I am sure there is some interest in Howard
> also here.
>
> Steven Pinker in his recent book THE BETTER ANGELS
> OF OUR NATURE: WHY VIOLENCE HAS DECLINED quotes
> Howard as follows:
Quote:
As the novelist Robert Howard put it, "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split." (p 128)
> The odd thing about this, of course, is that
> Pinker likes civilization, whereas Howard,
> famously, did not. Nor do I think the sentiment is
> original to Howard.
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." -- Robert A. Heinlein,
Beyond This Horizon, 1942.
“The true independent is he who dwells detached and remote from the little herds as well as from the big herd. Affiliating with no group or cabal of mice or monkeys, he is of course universally suspect.†—
The Black Book of Gore Vidal.