“Whereas left-wing and liberal thinkers saw history in linear, progressive terms, many conservatives believed that it was circular and repetitive, like the life cycle.”— Nicholas Stargardt, amazon.com
“Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future. And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable. What might have been is an abstraction remaining a perpetual possibility only in a world of speculation.”— T. S. Eliot, coldbacon.com
“Debt and drugs: new balance of terror. Will the debt be balanced out, the drugs cleaned up? No way. Vicious circle of soft wars, viral forms of finance and morphine.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com
“The concept of 'reprehensible action' presents us with some difficult. Nothing in all that happens can be reprehensible in itself: one not dare to eliminate it completely for everything is so bound up with everything else, that to exclude one part would mean to exclude the whole. A reprehensible act…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com