Who said what about whom

Today is the anniversary of an incident that contributed to the personality disorders described here:

…in his case what had been hardness became cruelty, while a tendency to bluff became plain dishonesty. He often lied without hesitation, and assumed that others lied to him. He believed no one any more. It had already been difficult enough dealing with him; it now became a torture that grew steadily worse from month to month. He frequently lost all self-control and his language grew increasingly violent. In his intimate circle he now found no restraining influence….

Can you guess who wrote it and whom he was writing about?

The answers will be posted time permitting later today or tomorrow.

Reparations

First, who owes them? A just debt is owed only if it is chargeable in justice to the debtor. But the American public as such and as a whole did not incur the debt of reparations for slavery, neither then nor now.

Second, what of the proletariat? What industrial capital expropriated from proletarian labor time differs only in legal form from what landed capital accumulated from fixed assets that happened to be human beings. The claim of their descendants to reparations stands on approximately the same economic ground as that of the descendants of slaves. 

Or, to add a political statement to the foregoing philosophical and economic statements, people who would like to remedy an injustice by perpetrating another injustice cannot expect those who suffer from the latter to vote for them.

Of course these statements are so far merely conclusory and have to be argued for.