History is a slaughter bench, upon which the happiness of nations, the wisdom of states, and the virtues of individuals are sacrificed

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel “Paraphrased”

Death | history | Nations

People who eat one other because of the famine are not cannibals. Cannibals are those who don’t want to redistribute the church’s gold to the starving

-Governmental poster from Socialist Russia

If you don’t talk with people that are opposed to your positions you know nothing about them and even less about yourself

-Christopher Hudgens

For the first time in 2,000 years the intellectuals are siding with the people who gave the hemlock to Socrates

-Julien Benda

The dose makes the poison. Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison

-Paracelsus

Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged

-Jeri Taylor

If they hate you enough they can find any legal grounds to fuck you

-Unknown

I wouldn’t trust a word that came out of his mouth even if his tongue was notarized

-Private author about Martin Sigillito

There is no decent place to stand in a massacre

-Leonard Cohen

Don’t be eager to pick a war with your neighbors that have turned all their swords into plowshares just because all you can see are old swords

-Christopher Hudgens