Gene Ishchuk

“To cover their tracks even further, the boomers have stuffed their heirs with sufficient pseudo-knowledge to make them feel as if they know enough about the past to judge themselves superior to it.”
― Helen Andrews, Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster

“Being a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad.”
― George Orwell

“But one thing I’m sure of: My education really began that day in Nassau Hall. Dean Root freed me to get on with my life. Learning”
― William Zinsser, Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All

“She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honorable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honor at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram