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John Gray on Memorial Day

born 1948 England

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The result of toppling tyranny in divided countries is usually civil war and ethnic cleansing.

There are not two kinds of human being, savage and civilized. There is only the human animal, forever at war with itself.

The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (2013)

Cheating ageing by a low-calorie diet, uploading one’s mind into a super-computer, migrating into outer space … Longing for everlasting life, humans show that they remain the death-defined animal.

The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Gray (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.