the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

To determine if you're human. Be silent.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.