If God could make angels, why did he bother with men?

Hesitancy in judgment is the only true mark of the thinker.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

Everything Hitler did to the Jews, all the horribly unspeakable misdeeds, had already been done to the smitten people before by the Christian churches. . . . The isolation of Jews into ghetto camps, the wearing of the yellow spot, the burning of Jewish books, and finally the burning of the people - Hitler learned it all from the church. However, the church burned Jewish women and children alive, while Hitler granted them a quicker death, choking them first with gas.

People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.