It all spoke of the willingness of people to hurt each other, the burning passion to control what other people thought and did. So many people, in secret, subtle ways, acted to destroy people - and not just their enemies, either, but also their friends. Destroying them for the pleasure of knowing that they had the power to cause pain. And so few who devoted their lived to building other peoples strength and confidence. So few who were true teachers, genuine mates.

He saw them with such better understanding that they took on power and meaning beyond anything in his experience before.

Is this earth? So beautiful and monstrous? Is this what we were?

If I had taken away the desire for violence then humanity would not have been humanity. Not that human beings need to be violent in order to be human, but if y…

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once the…

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than und…

I don't deal with women I got to tell what to do. They know what to do.