The good people died first. - Timothy Snyder

What to read? Any good novel enlivens our ability to think about ambiguous situations and judge the intentions of others.

Violence is not confidence, and terror is not mastery.

If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.