Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
~ Timothy Snyder
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The working class is immense, varied, and not all that amenable to being led. It’s more atomized, more independent-minded, more conspiracy-minded and cynical than it was a couple of generations ago.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God — who knows all that can be known — seems powerless to change.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Anyone who has once looked into the glassy eyes of a dying warrior on the battle-field would think twice before beginning a war.
~ Otto von Bismarck
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Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It’s always seemed to me that photography tends to deal with facts whereas film tends to deal with fiction.
~ Diane Arbus
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Disturbance comes only from within—from our own perceptions.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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Trust is less quantifiable than other forms of capital. Its decline is vaguely felt before it’s plainly seen.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
~ Franz Kafka
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There is a wisdom of the head, and there is a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
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