The military museum and the daily news from Bosnia can almost make you think that war is what usually happens. Young men and women and children die. Politicians talk. Relief agencies try to help. And you do notice the museum has no pictures of victims, only heroes.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to hope; and the man who has ceased to hope has ceased to live. For it is by the alternation of terror and desire that we keep alive the trembling flame of experience.
George Santayana — The Life of Reason
Listen and learn. Time is divided into two rivers: one flows backward, devouring life already lived; the other moves forward with you exposing your life. For a single second they may be joined.
Pablo Neruda
The sin of nearly all left-wingers from 1933 onwards is that they have wanted to be anti-Fascist without being anti-totalitarian.
George Orwell — Notes on Nationalism