“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”

“The meaning of the world, said Wittgenstein, is outside the world. Events and values are distinguishable only in relation to others. A totality of events and values, the world itself, requires another.”

“Nothing is complete in itself but requires something outside itself in order to exist.”

“Over the years I had convinced myself that brutality required motive, but this is a fool’s deceit. Cruelty is the motive; religion and politics and resources are simply the cloth man weaves to curtain his desires for violence.”

“Making judgements about other people requires that we understand where they are coming from;their motivations and their fears. Only then can we claim to know them.”

“Force is incomplete and therefore has to be fed energy constantly. Power is total and complete in itself and requires nothing from outside.”