Jared Diamond Quotes

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

- Jared Diamond

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Study | Injustices | History | Reason | Genocide |

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