"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
— E.L. Doctorow

"We can only begin to live when we conceive life as
Tragedy.
-W.B. Yeats"
— Sylvia Plath

"What social psychology has given to an understanding of human nature is the disceovery that forces larger than ourselves determine our mental life and our actions - chief among these forces [is] the power of the social situation"
— Mahrzarin Banaji

"When you've gone over something again and again...and again and again...like I have...certain questions get answered. Others spring up! The mind plays tricks on you. You play tricks back! It's like you're unraveling a cable-knit sweater...that someone keeps knitting...and knitting and knitting...and knitting and knitting and knitting!"
— Phil Hartman

""Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.""
— William Harvey

"I have sometimes dreamt that when the Day of Judgement dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards - their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly into imperishable marble - the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, 'Look. These need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading'."
— Virginia Woolf

""One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."- Joseph Stalin


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— Joseph Stalin

"The type of political culture that accompanies the rise of the corportate media system worldwide looks to be increasingly like that found in the US: in the place of informaed debate or political parties organizing along the full spectrum of opinion, there will be vacuous journalism and elections dominated by public relations, big money, moronic political advertizing and limited debate on tangible issues. It is a world where the market and commercial values overwhelm notions of democracy and civic culture, a world where depoliticization runs rampant, and a world where a wealthy few face fewer and fewer threats of political challenge"
— Wall Street Journal

"Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements."
— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

"The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London"
— John Masefield

"My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road"
— Marek Edelman

"Human reason is beautiful and invincible.
No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books,
No sentence of banishment can prevail against it.
It puts what should be above things as they are.
It does not know Jew from Greek nor slave from master."
— Czesław Miłosz (Selected Poems)

"Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion."
— John Gray