Matthew

“An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.”
― Arthur Miller

“It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Anarchism

“To ignore what cannot be measured in precise numbers is like counting the stems in a bouquet of flowers while ignoring the indescribable perfume and beauty of each bud.”
― Theodore Zeldin, The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future