"The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority, they don't dare to assert themselves.”
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
"Therefore they shall eat the bitter fruit of their ways, and be gutted by their own schemes. For the foolish turn away from me—to death. For fools are destroyed by their pride and self-satisfaction.”
Proverbs 1:31-3
"Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse."
R. J. Rummel, Death By Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900, 1994
"Let us ever bear in mind this divine truth, — the more secret God's hand is, the more powerful — the more silent, the more awful."
John Henry Newman
Stocks rallied to new all time highs.
VIX fell to a near term low.
Gold and silver were hit with selling as befits a Non-Farm Payrolls event, although they managed to bounce back a bit.
I am struck by the stillness, the calm before the storm, the towering pride of evil, the silence before the awful will of God.
Have a pleasant weekend.
