Reflect, ye on Dallas, ye savage nation.

True civilization does not lie in progress or steam or table turning.  It lies in the diminution of the marks of original sin.”  (Baudelaire). 

“The impulses toward cruelty, the destruction, and ruthless self-gratification that forever are fighting to master our inner nature – the man whose psychology ignores these, corrupts society and himself.”   (Hawthorne).

Reflect, ye on Dallas, ye savage nation.