Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?

How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?

Historically, unfortunately, race seems to be the major division that humanity has imposed on itself, a way of subdividing into smaller groups.