CJ

“I knew he was angry by this token. When I read when he wrote about women I thought, not of what he was saying, but of himself. When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument; and the reader cannot help thinking of the argument too. If he had written dispassionately about women had he used indisputable proofs to establish his argument and had shown no trace of wishing that the result would be one thing rather than another, one would not have been angry either.”
― Virginia Woolf

“The society in which each man lives is at once the basis for, and the nemesis of, that fullness of life which each man seeks”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics

“Invest me in my motley. Give me leave
To speak my mind, and I will through and through
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world If they will patiently receive my medicine.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me