Zinaida

“ART: None. The function of art is to hold the mirror up to nature, and there simply isn’t a mirror big enough—see point one.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?”
― David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“Good ideas don’t stand a chance against good bureaucracy.”
― Hiroshi Sakurazaka, All You Need Is Kill

“Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish