"Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce."

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For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

— James G. Frazer