“The strange limits of human development (the way it hesitates, takes so long, often turns back, and moves in circles) is due to the fact that the herd instinct of obedience is inherited best by, and at the expense of, the art of command.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §199 (edited excerpt).

'The Devil skating when Hell freezes over'. John Collier. 1920.

Anti-opium propaganda (1930, circa)

Everything done for the dead after they're dead is for the living

Take the longing in these restless eyes and feed it to lonely swallows cruising an autumn cornfield