You Have To Struggle To Stay Alive

The Gift We Can Offer Others Is So Simple A Thing As Hope.

I'd Like To Die With My Boots On.

The Jesuits I Know Who Have Died And All Their Lives Were Great Teachers, They're The Least Remembered People

Every Nation-state Tends Towards The Imperial - That Is The Point. Through Banks, Armies, Secret Police, Propaganda, Courts And Jails, Treaties, Taxes, Laws And Orders, Myths Of Civil Obedience, Assumptions Of Civic Virtue At The Top. Still It Should Be Said Of The Political Left, We Expect Something Better. And Correctly. We Put More Trust In Those Who Show A Measure Of Compassion, Who Denounce The Hideous Social Arrangements That Make War Inevitable And Human Desire Omnipresent; Which Fosters Corporate Selfishness, Panders To Appetites And Disorder, Waste The Earth.

The Arms Race Is Worse Than It Ever Was, The Dumping Of Creation Down A Military Rat Hole Is Worse Than It Ever Was, The Wars Across The Earth Are Worse Than They Ever Were.