Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
In the original Spanish
La civilización no es otra cosa que el ensayo de reducir la fuerza a ultima ratio.
The Revolt of the Masses · 1930
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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, ch. 8.
Original citation
Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La Rebelion de las Masas [The Revolt of the Masses.] El Sol, 1929, serial.
