The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.