I've played some good villains, in the last few years. I'm good where I'm at. But it is fun playing villains, for sure.
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.
It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.
A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.
Fragmentation occurs when a civilization is in decline.
Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.
When you go through a tunnel - you're going on a train - you go through a tunnel, the tunnel is dark, but you're still going forward. Just remember that. But if you're not going to get up on stage for one night because you're discouraged or something, then the train is going to stop. Everytime you get up on stage, if it's a long tunnel, it's going to take a lot of times of going on stage before things get bright again. You keep going on stage, you go forward. EVERY night you go on stage.
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.