Bart Kielich

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“Both Bratva and thieves in law would like to call themselves nihilists and anarchists because they don’t support the established government, but they govern nonetheless, and you can’t be an anarchist unless you follow its rule. Crime and anarchy are no more synonymous than nihilism and existentialism, or fatalism and determinism; so many isms there was bound to be a schism.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

tags: anarchy, bratva, existentialism, fatalist, nihilism, philosophy, russia, russian-mafia, thief-in-law, thieve-in-law

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“-What is the song about? I asked.
-Death, he answered with a laugh. But don't worry, nobody dies, it is the death of love.”
― Patti Smith, M Train

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“British baby farmer Amelia Dyer, believed to have murdered several hundred infants in her care.[1”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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“There are three great taboos in textbook publishing,” an editor at one of the biggest houses told me, “sex, religion, and social class.” While I had been able to guess the first two, the third floored me. Sociologists know the importance of social class, after all. Reviewing American history textbooks convinced me that this editor was right, however. The notion that opportunity might be unequal in America, that not everyone has “the power to rise in the world,” is anathema to textbook authors, and to many teachers as well.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

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“this person saw Mrs. Gunness as “a maniac of the much-dreaded type that includes the White Chapel murderer.” It is “not money” that drives such killers “but the constantly growing appetite for blood, to cut deep and watch the blood flow, to dabble the hands in it, to revel in the odor of it.” One “distinguishing features of these criminals is their invariable use of the same methods in every case. Mrs. Gunness decapitated every one of her victims. In every case she severed the limbs. Always there was the maximum of mutilation.”[9]”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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