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

“If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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