"Is not true charity, so rarely felt by those who inculcate it, precisely the emotion which impels the individual, however unreasonably, to identify with the crime of the criminal as well as with the responsibility of the judge?" - Maurice Druon
"If you care about other people, that’s now a very dangerous idea. If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That’s not going to happen if you care only about yourself. Maybe you can become rich, but you don’t care whether other people’s kids can go to school, or can afford food to eat, or things like that. In the United States, that’s called “libertarian” for some wild reason. I mean, it’s actually highly authoritarian, but that doctrine is extremely important for power systems as a way of atomizing and undermining the public." - Noam Chomsky
“that little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken—such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.” Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ
"Love betrayed, if it did not descend into hatred, became wariness and indifference and doubt, fearful of fresh hurt." Taylor Caldwell- Captains And The Kings.
"When you laugh, the world laughs with you. When you weep, you weep alone"
"It is easy to go down into Hell. Night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide. But to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air. There's the rub, the task." Virgil- Dante's Inferno
The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent. – Fundamentals of Chess
