Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from its subjects. … - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?