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| 7 | 977 | But the trigger would have been pulled. |
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| 7 | 974 | I did View more quotes about know">know that frustration tended to produce aggression and destructiveness. |
| 7 | 975 | It did not seem unlikely that the frustrations of my world, particularly those of men, might precipitate the madness and irrationality of thermonuclear war. |
| 7 | 976 | Aggression, displaced, would presumably be ventilated against an external enemy. |
| 7 | 977 | But the trigger would have been pulled. |
| 7 | 978 | It would be unfortunate if the last recourse left to men to prove to themselves that they were men was the carnage of contemporary, technological conflict. |
| 7 | 979 | Yet I knew men who hungered for this madness, that the walls of their prisons might be destroyed, even though they themselves might die screaming in the flames. |
| 7 | 980 | But perhaps they might reclaim their surrendered manhood before they themselves, and their world, became the helpless victims of its thwarted furies. |