A couple of days ago, Andrew Sullivan posted this as his “quote for the day:”

Most other creatures engage in violence, and some insects and animals with elaborate social structures reflect those systems in their modes of fighting and aggression. But humans are unique in their creation of an institution of war that is designed to organize violence, define its purposes, declare its onset, ratify its conclusion and establish its rules. War, like literature, is a distinctively human product,” – Drew Gilpin Faust (pdf), from the annual Jefferson Lecture in DC.

Further down in my Google Reader feed was this from The Guardian (written by D. H. Lawrence in 1914).