civilization,
at bottom, nothing but a
colossal swindle
Part the Menckon Project.
Taken from the line:
In the long run, it may turn out that rascality is necessary to human government, and even to civilization itself — that civilization, at bottom, is nothing but a colossal swindle.
From Last Words, H. L. Mencken (1926)
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