Humans can adapt to anything but uncertainty. The worst monsters are the ones we haven’t yet encountered.
[…]But then truth isn’t really the point of torture, given that the victim will say anything to get the pain to stop. Torture is about the torturer.
[…]One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. – Napoleon Bonaparte
[…]War is nothing about reason and everything about emotion. If it has logic, it is the mad logic of hell. All of us have some evil: deep in most, indulged by a few, universally released by war. Men sign away everything for this release, uncapping a pot they scarcely know is boiling, and then are haunted ever after.
[…]The correlation between schooling and common sense is limited in the extreme.
[…]Passion governs, and never governs wisely. – Ben Franklin
