Quote of the day

All things are subject to interpretation - whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

To be followed by a quote from Monty Python:

It's all very well to laugh at the military, but when one considers the meaning of life, it is a struggle between alternative viewpoints of life itself. And without the ability to defend one's own viewpoint against other perhaps more aggressive ideologies, then reasonableness and moderation could, quite simply, disappear! That is why we'll always need an army, and may God strike me down were it to be otherwise.
- from The Meaning of Life (of course, lightning strikes him down as he finishes the last sentence)