What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. — Joseph Conrad. Polish-British writer (1857–1924)
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.