“Blood and power intoxicate; they help to develop callousness and debauchery. The mind then becomes capable of the most abnormal cruelty, which it regards pleasure; the man and the citizen are swallowed up in the tyrant; and the return to human dignity, repentance, moral resurrection, becomes almost impossible."
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The House of the Dead
05 December 2008
The Grapes of Graft
There seems to be a rush to help those who take a shower in the morning before going to work, and not those who take a shower in the evening after a day's work.