Patrick

“For who owns that car, or that washing machine, or that apartment? Not the man himself. The banks own them, the insurance companies, ultimately the State. They are his only on credit, on sufferance. Every month he lops off a bit of his life and labor and mails it to the bank, or the credit card company, or the Government. He is in thrall; and there is no foreseeable end to it.”
― Jon Manchip White

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

“So many people make a name now-a-days, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”
― Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes

“The spirit of faction outlived the cause of faction, and became itself the new and prolific source of a useless, endless strife.”
― James Bryce