Whether or not anyone could have done it is not what's important. What is important is whether or not anyone would have done it.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not help but conclude that evil acts committed by religious people are committed not because of their religion, but in spite of it.

I do not like to call myself a Liberal, because there is so much that is wrong with liberalism. I also do not like to call my a Conservative for exactly the same reason. The fact that the theater of conservativism today seems to be such a haven for such an abundance of small minded, non-thinking, irrationalists is however making it very difficult for me to not adopt a harder stance.

Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.