Recent Quotes

To put it crudely: it is not so much that bureaucratic procedures are inherently stupid, or even that they tend to produce behavior that they themselves define as stupid, but rather, that they are invariably ways of managing social situations that are already stupid because they are founded on structural violence.
— David Graeber

Anyone can take your life, but
not what you believe in, no
— NF

You can't blossom if you keep growing gardens out of weeds
— Beach Bunny

Our culture is being transformed into a smartphone wasteland.
— James Marriott

The Lottery, with its weekly pay-out of enormous prizes, was the one public event to which the proles paid serious attention. It was probably that there were some millions of proles for whom the Lottery was the principal if not the only reason for remaining alive.
— George Orwell - "1984"