"One need not lay waste to time by learning the political history of our world. It is all the same, ever repeating. Different names, different faces. But all and always the same save for the extraneous detail of the embroidery. One need learn but a span, and learn it well, to understand eternity. For eternal is the nature of man's treachery, greed, and bestial hunger for power, which, well groomed, is the essence and sum of politics."
AND
"Trust no man. Above all, trust no man of wealth who speaks of his concern for the welfare of the people or the common good."
From "Under Tiberius" by Nick Tosches
No comments:
Post a Comment