Thanks," said Elric, "and what did you give in the first place for the power to summon such a demon?" "Why, my soul, of course. But it was an old one… - Michael Moorcock

To me politics is just a matter of getting the engineering right. If you have a machine which functions properly without much attention, then it's obviously a good machine. That's what politics should be about. And if the machine has simple working parts which any layman can understand, then it's, as it were, your democratic machine. Am I right or am I wrong?"
"Crazy," said Makhno, and scratched his nose.
"What?"
"You're not right or wrong. You're crazy.

The Dead God’s Book and the Golden Barge are one and the same. They have no real existence, save in the wishful imagination of mankind. There is, the story says, no Holy Grail which will transform a man overnight from bewildered ignorance to complete knowledge—the answer already is within him, if he cares to train himself to find it. A rather overemphasised fact, throughout history, but one generally ignored all the same.

Violence creates nothing but violence, no matter what we call it and what the excuse. And so it goes, down all the centuries.