Status Updates From The Fire Next Time

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people. It is not necessary that people be wicked but only that people be spineless.

I sometimes think with despair that Americans will swallow whole any political speech whatever. They been doing very little else these last bad years.

…Totally unprepared as is the way with American he man for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun. I might have pitied them if I had not found myself in their hands so often and discovered through ugly experience what they were like when they held the power and what they were like when you held the power