Men have social needs. They have a need for other people; they have a need to love and be loved. - Carroll Quigley

The fundamentalist position on biblical interpretation, with its emphasis on the explicit, complete, final, and authoritarian nature of Scripture, is a very late, minority view quite out of step with the Western tradition.

We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries...

It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.