156 Quotes

“Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?”
― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader

“no energetic wickedness ruffled his lassitude”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“depth answers unto depth”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“No: it was that the hexarchate was a terrible place to live, but it would be an even worse one if no one with a conscience consented to serve it. You couldn't pull the hexarchate apart and exchange it for something better. The fact that the heretics always lost was proof of that. So you had to do the next best thing, the only thing left: serve, and hope that serving honorably made some small difference.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem