“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While the calendar fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise And our leaders have feasts on the backsides of beasts They still think they're the gods of antiquity If something you missed didn't even exist It was just an ideal is it such a surprise?” IfsThinkingStillsTurnsLeaderVirtueGraceFailingIdealsSurpriseStupidityCompromiseBeastNonsenseFadesModestyPaleAntiquityCalendarsBarricadesBacksides Author:Elvis Costello
“Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.” WisdomTurnsPoliticsJusticeEconomyAuthorityInjusticeProsperityBeastLiberalism Book:The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)