"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."

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Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

— Walter Lippmann