Joseph Gallo

“The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time.”
― Frank Herbert

“În tot universul meu, n-am întâlnit nicio lege a naturii imuabilă și inexorabilă. Acest univers nu prezintă decât relații schimbătoare care, uneori, sunt percepute drept legi de către conștiințele cu o existență vremelnică. Aceste ansambluri de simțuri carnale pe care le numim sine sunt efemeride ce pier în lumina orbitoare a infinitului, conștiente doar o clipită de anumite condiții provizorii, care ne limitează activitățile și se schimbă odată cu ele. Dacă trebuie să dați un nume absolutului, dați-i numele cuvenit: Provizoriu.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“On 1 November 1983 Secretary of State George Shultz received intelligence reports showing that Iraq was using chemical weapons almost daily. The following February, Iraq used large amounts of mustard gas and also the lethal nerve agent tabun (this was later documented by the United Nations); Reagan responded (in November) by restoring diplomatic relations with Iraq. He and Bush Sr. also authorized the sale of poisonous chemicals, anthrax, and bubonic plague. Along with French supply houses, American Type Culture Collection of Manassas, Virginia, shipped seventeen types of biological agents to Iraq that were then used in weapons programs. In 1989, ABC-TV news correspondent Charles Glass discovered what the U.S. government had been denying, that Iraq had biological warfare facilities. This was corroborated by evidence from a defecting Iraqi general. The Pentagon immediately denied the facts.”
― Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire

“Conflicted creatures, that’s what we [parents] are — we give birth, without knowing to what; we educate, without knowing whom; we must answer for it, without knowing how; and we can give up neither our power nor our fear.”
― Lou Andreas-Salome, 'Anneliese's House'