... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; hatred engenders violence; violence engenders further violence until the only "rights", the only law, are whatever is willed by the most powerful.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!