Might doesn’t make right, just the rules.
Aug 272021
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Aug 232021
The future will have no laws, only terms of service.
Aug 112021
Rome’s interests, to Caesar, are indistinguishable from his own.
Aug 022021
If you want power, fame is a liability.
Jul 232021
A man can bear almost any punishment, provided it’s not for his own good.
Jul 222021
One never sees extremely powerful men decide, in midlife, that they have accumulated enough power, and devote the rest of their years to giving it away.
Jul 202021
Ants can be deterred from crossing a boundary by outlining it with chalk: this is respectable opinion. On ants it works only for a while.
Jul 082021
We know that something will be with us forever when war is declared on it.
Jul 062021
An underclass is what you get when stupid people practice modern mores.
Jul 022021
If you rebel against the powers that be, and win, assuming power, it is necessary, to continue your program of rebellion, to pretend to remain out of power; and this is in fact what we observe.