What makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.
Jared Diamond
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Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity unique among animals to make counterevolutionary choices.
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The values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
- Jared Diamond