In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
In retrospect, we should have killed them all back then. No, we all will pay the price for our lack of awareness and resolution. Winter is coming.
A few cancer cells, left to incubate for years, mean death.