Christopher McMahon

“All was forgiven.

All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan

“The descent into Hell is easy”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
― Edward W. Said

“Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”
― Slavoj Žižek