“There are two kinds of realists: those who manipulate facts and those who create them. The West requires nothing so much as men able to create their own reality.”
Henry Kissinger, 1963
“But in these cases
We still have judgment here, that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips…”
Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Plunderers of the world, when nothing remains on the lands to which they have laid waste by wanton thievery, they search out across the seas. The wealth of another region excites their greed; and if it is weak, their lust for power as well…Among all others only they are compelled to attack the poor as well as the rich. To robbery, rape, and slaughter they give the lying name of empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
Tacitus
