“Biology enables, Culture forbids.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”  1984

Often while playing, playing good, inoffensive, permissible games, I became too excited and violent for my sisters to put up with; this led to arguments and unhappiness, and when anger overcame me at such times, I was a terror, doing and saying things whose vileness I felt deeply and painfully at the very moment I did and said them. Then came vexing, dark hours of regret and contrition, and then the awful moment when I asked to be forgiven Demian

A word in earnest is as good as a speech. Bleak House