Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is.
Power is paradoxical.
The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.
A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.