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Was all this bloodshed and deceit - from Columbus to Cortes, Pizarro the Puritans - a necessity for the human race to progress from savagery to civilization? Was Morison right in burying the story of genocide inside a more important story of human progress? Perhaps a persuasive argument can be made - as it was made by Stalin when he killed pesants for industrial progress in the Soviet Union, as it was made by Churchill explaining the bombings of Dresden and Hamburg, and Truman explaining Hiroshima. But how can the judgement be made if the benefits and losses cannot be balanced because the losses are either unmentioned or mentioned quickly?

– Howard Zinn

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13 years ago

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

– Leo Tolstoy

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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

– Leo Tolstoy

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13 years ago

Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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13 years ago

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

– H.L. Mencken

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14 years ago

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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14 years ago

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