Timothy

“Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.”
― Kenneth Minogue, Politics: A Very Short Introduction

“O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant”
― T. S. Eliot

“It is said that the price of freedom is vigilance, and an important form of vigilance is attention to political rhetoric, which often reveals how things are going.”
― Kenneth Minogue, Politics: A Very Short Introduction

“I quite fixedly believe the Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, that face on other worlds than ours. And some of us, I think, once in a while get a peep through these windows. But we are not permitted to get a long peep, or an unobstructed peep, nor very certainly, are we permitted to see all there is — out yonder. The fatal fault, sir, of your theorizing is that it is too complete. It aims to throw light upon the universe, and therefore is self-evidently moonshine. The Wardens of Earth do not desire that we should understand the universe, Mr. Kennaston; it is part of Their appointed task to insure that we never do; and because of Their efficiency every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong.”
― James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest