Friday, June 20, 2008

(non) sense of pride and superiority



"...we have a wealth of evidence to show that humans are no less eager than in the past to dominate, degrade, humiliate, and control -- often in order to confirm their own sense of pride and superiority..."

from

Inhuman Bondage
by David Brion Davis

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