Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. -George Eliot

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. -Andrea Dworkin

If the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter. -George Washington

The ultimate enemy of Democracy is not the drug dealer of the crooked politician or the crazed skinhead. The ultimate enemy is the New King that has become so powerful it can murder its own citizens with impunity. -Gerry Spence

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity. -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1/2 "It may seem sometimes as if a culture of peace does not stand a chance against the culture of war, the culture of violence and the cultures of impunity and intolerance. Peace may indeed be a complex challenge, dependent on action in many fields and even a bit of luck from time to time..."

¡VAMOS SAN LORENZO! A GANAR ESTA NOCHE EN BRASIL CONTRA SANTOS, JUEGUEN CON O SIN NEYMAR, DA IGUAL.

MERCI! UN MATCH INOUBLIABLE!!!

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory. -Aeschylus

He hears but half who hears one party only. -Aeschylus

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer. -Aeschylus

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. -Aeschylus

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. -Aeschylus

Allez le Canadien! Go Habs, go! Game 7, 2nd round of NHL playoffs, 18 May, in Buffalo

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. -Maya Angelou

No one heals himself by wounding another. -St. Ambrose

As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome. -Noam Chomsky

1/2 "It is in physical and mental oppression that fascism believes; this is what it practices, loves, honors, and glorifies..."

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. -Arundhati Roy

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. -Thomas Mann

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. -Albert Camus

Don Florentino, Ya está bien, hombre. Suelte las riendas, señor, que ya se le ha ido de las manos. No pasa nada, se acabó. Por el bien del Real Madrid, un paso al costado por favor. V.M., hincha del RMCF