Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten. It was in the blood, the flesh, And now it is forever. - Greg Bear

2. “We must know our enemy, at least a little.”
“That’s dangerous,” Prufrax said, almost instinctively.
“Yes, it is. What you know, you cannot hate.”

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we’re all so goddamned stupid.

Populists believed the people should dictate their needs to any individual who rose above the herd, and bring them low again—except of course for the leaders of whatever populist government took power, who, as political messiahs, would earn specific privileges themselves.