Peak Human Quotes

“Hard times create strongmen, and strongmen create even harder times.”
― Johan Norberg, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages

“Do we not see that noble cities are erected by the people and destroyed by the princes? That a state grows rich by the industry of its citizens and is plundered by the rapacity of its rulers? That good laws are enacted by representatives of the people and violated by kings? That the commons love peace and the monarchs foment war?”
― Johan Norberg, Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages