Dylan Miles

“To most of the world sucess is never bad. I remember how, when Hitler moved unchecked and triumphant, many honourable men sought and found virtues in him. And Mussolini made the trains run on time, and Vichy collaborated for the good of France, and whatever else Stalin was, he was strong. Strength and success-they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“The fearful necessity of war ought only to be taken seriously and sternly. There are lies enough in the world as it is. War should be treated as a hard fact; not as a game; otherwise it becomes a mere pastime for the idle and frivolous. There is no more honourable class than the military, and yet to what extremities they are driven to gain their ends!—In fact, what is the aim and end of war?—Murder.—And its means?—Treachery and spying.—Its procedure?—Pillage and robbery for the maintenance of the men! . . . That is to say, falsehood and dishonesty in every form, under the name of the Art of War.—What, I ask you, is the rule to which military men are bound? To slavery, that is to say, to a rigorous discipline, which condones idleness, depravity, drunkenness—and yet they are universally respected, except the Emperor respected. Every monarch in the world, the man who has killed the greatest number of his fellow creatures wins the highest rewards. A million of men meet—to-morrow, for instance—to solemn thanksgivings for the massacre and maiming of the figures? Why, Te Deums are loudly boasted of, for the more men killed the more brilliant it is thought to be, and the victory is acceptable to God to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“We forget everything. What we remember is not what actually happened, not history, but merely the hackneyed dotted line they have chosen to drive into our memories by incessant hammering.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“The country with the world's strictest lockdown is now the worst for excess deaths". They're talking about Peru, a poor country that has been decimated by lockdowns. The poor are much poorer, and the tourism industry is destroyed. This is evil. And if you say anything, you're condemned.”
― Thomas E Woods Jr, Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During Covid Mania