Felt this was really relevant with what is going on

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Frank Herbert, 'Dune Messiah'

The Dune series by Frank Herbert might be science fiction, but Herbert was a brilliant author and his Dune books have many, many nuggets of truth and philosophy within them.