James Hoad

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

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

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
― Karl Marx

“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses