The Mute Protest In Your Own Bones

Nothing Was Your Own Except The Few Cubic Centimetres Inside Your Skull.

He Was An Embittered Atheist, The Sort Of Atheist Who Does Not So Much Disbelieve In God As Personally Dislike Him.

The Words Kept Coming Back To Him, Statement Of A Mystical Truth And A Palpable Absurdity.

And In The General Hardening Of Outlook That Set In ... Practices Which Had Been Long Abandoned ... -- Imprisonment Without Trial, The Use Of War Prisoners As Slaves, Public Executions, Torture To Extract Confessions, The Use Of Hostages And The Deportation Of Whole Populations -- Not Only Became Common Again, But Were Tolerated And Even Defended By People Who Considered Themselves Enlightened And Progressive.

So Long As Human Beings Stay Human, Death And Life Are The Same Thing.