Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.