Robert Delikat

“Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is it the custom of a particular culture or tribe. It is a consequence of the interchangeability of perspectives and the opportunity the world provides for positive-sum games.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“I challenge you to a duel!” screamed the cat, sailing over their heads on the swinging chandelier.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Feeling comes in aid
Of feeling, and diversity of strength
Attends us, if but once we have been strong.”
― William Wordsworth, The Prelude