The working class isn’t a puzzle whose solution comes with a prize—it isn’t a means to the end of realignment and long-term power. It is a constituency comprising half the country, whose thriving is necessary for the good of the whole.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
~ Franz Kafka
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You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
~ Will Rogers
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My ambition, still and always, is to integrate the experiments of modern art with the great classical tradition.
~ Salvador Dali
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If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never see anything.
~ Franz Kafka
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It is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Everybody is as unstable as water.
~ Joseph Heller
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I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Rights may be universal, but their enforcement must be local.
~ Murray Rothbard
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Intersectionality is a religious cult that’s dominated higher education for nearly a decade with the shallow but certain idea that power structures are everything, the Neanderthal view that blunt force trumps human dignity.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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