Perhaps it is one secret of their power that, having studied the fluctuations of prices, the [bankers] know that history is inflationary.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
As long as there is poverty there will be gods.
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.