"The Norse ideal was a man of open, generous disposition, a man imbued with qualities of compassion and kindness, not ruthless but firm and fair, even-tempered but capable of passion, physically accomplished and strong in a fight, but not a bully."
- Magnus Magnusson

Lo' there do I see My Father,
Lo' there do I see My Mother, My Sisters, & My Brothers,
Lo' there do i see the line of My People, back to the Beginning
Lo' they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them,
in the Halls of Valhalla, Where The Brave May Live FOREVER
- From the movie "The 13th Warrior"

"Beware that in fighting monsters, you do not become a monster"
-Nietzsche

The Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But does not talk my talk - I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock, They may do ill or well, But they tell the lies I am wonted to, They are used to the lies I tell; And we do not need interpreters when we go to buy and sell. The stranger within my gates, He may be evil or good, But I cannot tell what powers control - What reasons sway his mood; Nor when the Gods of his far-off land Shall repossess his blood. The men of my own stock, Bitter bad they may be, But, at least, they hear the things I hear, And see the things I see; And whatever I think of them and their likes They think of the likes of me. This was my father's belief And this is also mine: Let the corn be of all one sheaf - And the grapes be all one vine, Ere our children's teeth are set on edge by bitter bread and wine.
-Kipling