Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. Charles Baudelaire
It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted? Terry Eagleton
The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it. Herbert Marcuse
The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. Robert Falcon Scott
General McChrystal had to go. Whatever his virtues as a strategist and commander, the 'Rolling Stone' interview fatally compromised his ability to represent the United States in dealing with allies and to act within the circle of people who must make decisions in Afghanistan. Jim Talent
