Jacob Bains

“In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Beware that you do not go up on the mountain or touch its border; whoever touches the mountain must be put to death. 13‘No hand shall touch him [that is, no one shall try to save the guilty party], but the offender must be stoned or shot through [with arrows]; whether man or animal [that touches the mountain], he shall not live.”
― Anonymous, Amplified Holy Bible (2015 Text): Captures the Full Meaning Behind the Original Greek and Hebrew

“no human wants power for its own sake. One wants power because there is something one wishes to do with it.”
― Alexander C. Irvine, Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars Prose Novel

“Haggard is concerned not so much by cultural specifics as by the transience and fragility of all cultures.”
― H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines