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“Justice is a human concept, as flawed as any. There is no reliable justice in this world and, given human nature, never can be. Politics, bigotry, envy, ignorance . . . Those forces and others redefine justice day by day, until it means something different to everyone—until it means nothing at all.”
A sea of lies can’t wash away a single grain of truth. Truth is what it is.”
People drunk with power don’t believe in justice except as a word in one slogan or another. They despise the truth,
The possibility that his amnesia is breaking down alarms him. He might need to insist upon its renewal. He suspects there is no comfort equal to the comfort of not knowing.
To be fair to himself, perhaps he should accept that some fates are sewn into the fabric of time with tighter stitches than others.
Utopias, after all, are sought mostly by great fools, though also by dangerous charlatans, and more death and pain has been brought down on humanity by the pursuit of a perfect world than by all other crime combined.
Humble goals and modest expectations are more likely to be fulfilled than are utopian dreams.
