#na

the fact that every people feel itself threatened by the others gives the state it's definite unifying powers; it depends upon the instinct of self-preservation of society itself; the latent external crisis enables it to get the upper hand in internal crises ↗

— Martin Buber

#politics #power #state #anarchy

I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#future #loneliness #suicide #journalism

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#diversity #kingsolver #lacuna #diversity

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane. ↗

— John Green

#rain

Fear doesn't shut you down, it wake you up ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspirational

Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#demon #gena-showalter #paranormal #paris #paris

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#journalism

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. ↗

— William Faulkner

#truth #journalism

I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven? ↗

— Heather Brewer

#journalism

Don't read my diary when I'm gone. Ok, I'm going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read mmy diary. Look trough my things, and figure me out. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#journalism