Kindle Notes & Highlights
And for the first time in a long time, in each heart, the door had opened a little bit wider on that most warming hope of all: the hope that maybe, just maybe, this life could get just a little bit brighter. Just a little bit better.
False hope
Man is the strangest creature. Only man smiles at both happiness and horror.”
Stragest character
our words are not our own. Even our thoughts are not our own. Everything affects everyone, and everyone affects everything. Transparency, friends, transparency! Privacy is where hate and bigotry go to fornicate and multiply!”
Free speech and privacy
In the end, what was shocking was how little freedom and equality had really changed anything. The groups at the bottom of the social hierarchy remained at the bottom. The groups on top remained on top. If everyone was equal, how could this be?
Equality
“It’s the idea that because time is infinite and things are finite, the same events must recur over and over—forever. Recurrence means that wherever you and I may go in our lives, someone else has already been there.
History repeats
“Idealism is the battle hymn of hatred. It brings life to the dead and death to the living. It’s war against the reality of others.
Idealism
for the first time in her life what’d she been fighting for, what she was willing to die for. The freedom to speak what was in your heart. If you couldn’t do that, then there was no point to any of it.
Freedom of thought
