Robert Ledbetter

“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”
― Jack Kerouac

“war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“The memory of their former freedom will not let them rest; so that the safest course is either to destroy them, or to go and live in them.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“when they depend upon their own resources and can employ force, they seldom fail. Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince