Francis Spufford Quotes

Peace Is Not The Norm; Peace Is Rare, And Where We Do Manage To Institutionalize It In A Human Society, It's Usually Because We've Been Intelligently Pessimistic About Human Proclivities, And Found A Way To Work With The Grain Of Them In A System Of Intense Mutual Suspicion Like The U.S. Constitution, A Document Which Assumes That Absolutely Everybody Will Be Corrupt And Power-hungry Given Half A Chance.

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