The true nature of man left ...

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.
 Steven James

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Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.
 Steven James