There is no necessary connection between warfare and human nature. Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and… - Margaret Mead

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

I'm unique just like everyone else

Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. By a great effort man has hit upon a method of compensating himself for his basic inferiority. Equipped with various mysterious noise-making instruments, whose potency rests upon their actual form's being unknown to those who hear the sounds — that is, the women and children must never know that they are really bamboo flutes, or hollow logs, or bits of elliptic wood whirled on strings — they can get the male children away from the women, brand them as incomplete, and themselves turn boys into men. Women, it is true, make human beings, but only men can make men.