Tobias Orwick

“Immortals are never alien to one another.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“However enlightened and however skilful a central power may be, it cannot of itself embrace all the details of the existence of a great nation.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I’m snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It's a legitimate mode of cultural transmission....”
― Anthony Burgess, 1985