Paul Perry

“Concerning the books in the Library, here is my response: if their content agrees with the [Koran], they are superfluous; and if not, they are sacrilegious. Go ahead and destroy them.”
― Irene Vallejo, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World

“This is the world we live in. We are not heroes. We do not choose to be great; we have no power over our destinies. The scraps of freedom that we have are to pick between two poisons, to make the least bad decision we can, knowing that there is no outcome that will not leave us bruised, bloody on the floor.”
― Claire North, Ithaca

“Are you conspiring, little duck?"
"When one has neither gold, soldiers, name nor honour, what else is a woman to do?”
― Claire North, Ithaca

“In contemporary capitalism, in contrast to the colonial period, the enforcement of neoliberal policies is the chief means of imposing income deflation on the working people of the periphery.”
― Prabhat Patnaik, The Veins of the South Are Still Open: Debates Around the Imperialism of Our Time