Jonathon Moore

“We live in a two-tiered legal system, one where poor people are harassed, arrested, and jailed for absurd infractions, such as selling loose cigarettes—which led to Eric Garner being choked to death by the New York City police in 2014—while crimes of appalling magnitude by the oligarchs and corporations, from oil spills to bank fraud in the hundreds of billions of dollars, which wiped out 40 percent of the world’s wealth,41 are dealt with through tepid administrative controls, symbolic fines, and civil enforcement that give these wealthy perpetrators immunity from criminal prosecution.”
― Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour

“Dulce bellum inexpertis

"War is very sweet to those who have never tried it.”
― Erasmus

“As it turns out, there is a utility in keeping us divided. As people, the more separate we are, the more politically impotent we become.”
― Matt Taibbi, Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

“The photons themselves may have escaped from the outskirts of a galaxy or the outer layers of a star millions of years ago and have spent that entire time hurtling through space, soaring through intergalactic voids and past distant nebulae and narrowly skirting collisions with objects as large as stars or as small as interstellar dust motes. At the end of the journey, these photons managed to punch their way through Earth's atmosphere and land, of all places on the planet on the mirror of your telescope, to be bounced around and funneled into a camera so you could learn a little more about where they came from.
The next time you look at the sky, remember this is the same journey taken by the light from every star you look at that happens to land on your eye.”
― Emily M. Levesque, The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers