Architects Quotes

“A betrayal is never just one act. It is never a single horrible decision. It is the consistent silence, the non-events. The betrayal is in the emptiness, the messages you don’t receive, the support that isn’t there.”
― M.K. Williams, Architects

“I realized that their corporate incentives, those promotions and perks, the carrots they dangled, weren’t carrots at all. They were orange rags coated in kerosene, ready to be ignited, ready to incinerate me. My career about to go up in smoke. Another casualty of quarterly profits.”
― M.K. Williams, Architects

“We build these systems: organizational charts, procedures, chain of command and we say it is to provide order. To give us the structure that we need to be able to thrive. But more often than not, these systems, erected and convoluted by humans, serve as a means to hold some higher and keep others lower. The most pervasive example of this being the workplace. Lab, cubicle, high-rise, whatever the location: it’s all the same. Someone is below a certain paygrade; some people matter more. It’s all so cruel how we capture each other in these snares. So of course, when everything broke down, it revealed the worst of us. We had been feeding and nourishing that behavior for centuries, practicing our ability to marginalize someone, belittle them, shrink them down so small that we could just flick them away.”
― M.K. Williams, Architects