Jonathan

“You don’t leave a can of gasoline where a boy with firebug tendencies can lay hands on it.”
― Stephen King, Guns

“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”
― Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“The denial of sleep is the violent dispossession of self by external force, the calculated shattering of an individual.”
― Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep

“The movement toward equality still has a long way to go, especially in a world in which the poorest, and particularly the poorest in the poorest countries, are preparing to be subjected, with increasing violence, to climatic and environmental damage caused by the richest people’s way of life.”
― Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality