Makis Tzimakis

“If civilization has got the better of barbarism when barbarism had the world to itself, it is too much to profess to be afraid lest barbarism, after having been fairly got under, should revive and conquer civilization. A civilization that can thus succumb to its vanquished enemy, must first have become so degenerate, that neither its appointed priests and teachers, nor anybody else, has the capacity, or will take the trouble, to stand up for it. If this be so, the sooner such a civilization receives notice to quit, the better. It can only go on from bad to worse, until destroyed and regenerated (like the Western Empire) by energetic barbarians.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti
(Follow your road and let the people say)”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“God's only excuse is that he does not exist”
― Stendhal

“On the day when crime dons the apparel of innocence—through a curious transposition peculiar to our times—it is innocence that is called upon to justify itself. The”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt