James Hoad

“Optimism is cowardice.”
― Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

“I believe in only one thing, the power of human will.”
― Joseph Stalin

“We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.”
― Yukio Mishima

“The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince