Sparks: 'Lebanon is being held hostage to Hezbollah acting at Iran's behest'

Another nation's will is not Lebanon's to command, only its own response to the circumstance.

This cry of 'hostage' merely masks the slave morality of a state too weak to impose its own will.

The bow's tension, which seems to bind the wood, is the very force that aims the arrow.

Supreme excellence lies not in winning the fight but in shaping the terrain so another's proxy cannot hold it.

A government that calls itself sovereign while blaming another's agent has long since surrendered its reason.

The entire tragedy is contained not in the gunfire but in the silence of those who let it continue.

To claim a single center of gravity for all celestial motion is a theological error, not an astronomical one.

A nation educated for dependence will always mistake its chains for the natural order of things.

Observe how the force applied at the lever's farthest point creates the greatest motion at its base.

Freedom is not declared by those who hold the deed but taken by those who walk the road.

Hateful things: a guest who outstays his welcome and rearranges the furniture to his own liking.

In Damascus, the judge's authority flows from the Sultan; here, it flows from a militia's foreign coffers.