Nietzsche: England is the source of all plebeian ideas, the philosophy that glorifies the shopkeeper life (BGE 228, 252) nietzsche.holtof.com/reader/friedri…
Thomas Hobbes: the mass of mankind is dominated by the fear of death. This is especially apparent now as masses of people willingly subject themselves to every indignity and humiliation due to their fear of ***the \/irus***
The Normans, like the Romans, were a very legalistic people, obsessed with the law. But they were above all pragmatists. Norwich says they saw the law as their slave, not their master infogalactic.com/info/Norman_co…
The story of Indo-Ar*yan conquest is a tragic story because, as Gobineau saw clearly, with each new conquest the Ar*yan blood is mixed with that of the conquered peoples and becomes less and less shop.aer.io/RogueScholar/p…
In contrast to the West’s curiosity about the outside world, non-Western nations have had little to no such curiosity. See the book Occidentalism by Ian Buruma shop.aer.io/RogueScholar/p…
Robert Guiscard, leader of the conquest of Sicily, a man who as Macchiavelli said, knew how to use both the fox and the lion infogalactic.com/info/Robert_Gu…
Do not despair now, for the time of conquests and adventures will return again! perhaps soon in the free spaces opened by the decline of the rotting American empire
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