Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.