楚茵 吳

“All paradises, all utopias are defined by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]”
― Toni Morrison

“Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.”
― Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

“I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance”
― E.E. Cummings