"Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature."

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We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.

— William James