I am guilty,
But not in the way that you think.
I should have recognized my duty earlier;
I should have more sharply called out evil, as evil;
I suppressed my judgement far too long.
I did warn,
But not nearly enough, and certainly not clearly enough;
And today I know the nature of my guilt, and my obligation.
Albrecht Haushofer, executed by the SS in Berlin, 23 April 1945
“The wealth of another region excites their greed; and if it is weak, their lust for power as well. Nothing from the rising to the setting of the sun is enough for them. Among all others only they are compelled to attack the poor as well as the rich. Robbery, rape, and plunder they falsely call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.”
Tacitus
“Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history off the world have so many of those same people felt themselves so poor… The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.”
Lewis H. Lapham
