He was of the opinion that all the great civilizations of the ancient world were built on slavery and brutality in which the intellectual elite lived luxuriously off of the hard labor of the many.

• 他认为古代所有的伟大文明都是建立在奴隶和暴虐的基础上的，知识界精英用许多人的辛苦劳力，换来他们的奢靡生活。