The title is a maxim from Blaise Pascal's "Pensées".
The complete quote is "L'homme n'est ni ange ni bête et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la bête" (Man is neither an angel nor a beast, and the mishap is that whosoever purports to carry oneself like an angel, behaves like a beast).
I know...
Things have not changed all that much ever since the Crusades, have they?
Except for the shape of the cross on our flag...
And the might of our weapons...
“He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.”
ReplyDelete― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven