“Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
― George Carlin

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it”
-Jean De La Fontaine

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be
the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than
under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may
sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do
so with the approval of their consciences.
C. S. Lewis

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
- Winston Churchill.