Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.
~ Dieter Rams
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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When income level is the most important division in a society, politics is a struggle over how to redistribute money. When a society is more divided by education, politics becomes a war over values and culture. In country after country, people differ by education level on immigration, gender issues, the role of religion in the public square, national sovereignty, diversity, and whether you can trust experts to recommend a vaccine.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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My mother and I exchanged knowing glances, but we never said the obvious nor asked any questions on both of our minds. We knew there would not be much longer. There was nothing to say or ask that would furnish any useful information; inquiry, at that stage, can only inflict pain.
~ Dean Ball via Hyperdimensional
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In the past thirty or so years, the academy has replaced the church as the center of the liberal moral imagination, providing the sense of a community bound by ethics, a firmament of texts and knowledge that should inform action, and a meeting space for like-minded people.
~ Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker
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To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The darkly elegant finding buried inside all of this is that Americans have somehow maintained their personal equanimity while watching the entire architecture of collective life crumble around them. People feel fine, and the system feels broken. These two facts coexist peacefully, year after year, survey after survey, administration after administration.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Red-flag laws, when balanced with due process, save lives. Universal background checks are not tyranny but common sense. Gun ownership should carry the weight of duty, not just the thrill of entitlement. The Second Amendment was written for a very specific reason. Responsibility must again become the companion of freedom.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Modern American life is absolutely steeped in video, which follows us, at every hour, from TV screens to smartphones to laptops, from movies to social media rants to workplace anti-harassment training modules. The soundtrack to most of it is some form of sync.
~ Ryan Francis Bradley via The New York Times Magazine
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It wouldn’t be news to the Central Committee that only the paranoid survive.
~ Dan Wang via his 2025 letter
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In its exclusion of links, minimization of text, and encouragement of gauzy filters, Instagram turns every smartphone into its own little Silver Pavilion, through which the user can both cultivate a world and blot out what they don’t wish to see.
~ Jacob Mikanowski
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