Bygone Conclusions

“As I’ve aged, I’ve come to prefer the idea to the reality of human company.”
― Sol Luckman, Musings from a Small Island: Everything under the Sun

“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.
I wept, as I remembered, how often you and I
Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.
And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest,
A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest,
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.”
― William Johnson Cory

“The events in Bologna in 1920 were to provide the fascist movement, and then the regime, with one of their most powerful propaganda weapons, the equivalent of Hitler’s use of the Reichstag fire. Bologna,
they could state, had been in the hands of murderous ‘reds’. The trade unions and labour offices were, to quote the Bolognese fascist
Dino Grandi (and Mussolini): ‘a state within a state’. Bologna thus justified fascist violence (even though in many ways the events of
that day would not have taken place without fascist violence). Democracy could not be entrusted to ‘the reds’ and Bologna became
the blueprint not just for the destruction of local democracy, but for the overturning of democracy in general, and of the socialist and
trade union movement.”
― John Foot - Blood and Power

“I think the big mistake for mankind was the creation of monotheistic religions, because they brought evil into the world. Because if you believe in a monotheistic religion, it means I'm right and you're wrong.”
― Irving Finkel