"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. That is the way is was and will be. That way and not some other way." --- Cormac McCarthy
"Human beings are weak and fragile. All it takes for a person to die is for a fist-sized organ to stop beating. Human kindness, on the other hand, may derive from everyone's profound awareness of the fragility of life." --- Kiyoshi Shigematsu
"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters." --- Chinggis Khaan
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people." --- Carl Jung
"Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust." --- Marquis De Sade
"Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice - and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man - by choice; he has to hold his life as a value - by choice; he has to learn to sustain it - by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues - by choice." --- Ayn Rand
"Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of the needs of... of whoever. Of the state. Of the poor. Of the Army, of the King. Of God.' The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words 'Think of yourself?' It's the king and country crowd who light the torch of destruction." --- Andrew Ryan
"We live, as we dream--alone. . . ." --- Joseph Conrad
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." --- Friedrich Nietzsche
"As a species, we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?" --- Stephen King
"Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest and like a forest it's easy to lose your way...to get lost...to forget where you came in." --- Hattori Hanzo
But in the end it's all about the ultimate in Nadaism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso
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