When change threatens to rule, then the rules are changed. - Michael Parenti

Superior firepower, not superior culture, has brought the Europeans and Euro-North Americans to positions of global supremacy.

Conservatives have nothing against incumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots.

Those who think Roman slavery was such a benign institution have not explained why fugitive slaves were a constant problem. Owners did not lightly countenance the loss of valuable property. They regularly used chains, metal collars, and other restraining devices. Slaves who fled were hunted down and returned to irate masters who were keen to inflict a severe retribution.