Betsy Hagestedt

“Everything in your life. Is you choice, and every choice that you make has an impact on the universe. Every moment of your life you are making choices, even when you choose not to choose. Every choice will either follow the flow of the universe or it will create a disturbance. Once you’ve made a choice, you live with the consequences.
You cannot be forced to make a choice. Someone points a gun at your head and says, “do this,” it’s still your choice; you could choose to be shot. So, you can never blame others for your choices. Don’t ever be a martyr. Don’t make choices that your heart opposes. It’s irrational to say, “I make this choice because I have no choice.”
Never compromise. Once you’ve made a choice, accept it, embrace it, do it with love.”
― Harold R. Johnson, Corvus

“[…]any tool can also be a weapon of oppression as easily as it can be an implement of construction.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night

“Creativity is cultural not because it is derivative of it, but because it aims to heal culture. Art saturated with the unconscious acts like a compensatory dream in the individual: it tries to rebalance and address deep-rooted problems.”
― Ali Smith, Summer

“He remembered Virgil’s words. “Never belong to an ideology, by belonging you become winded. Even an ideology of liberation will ultimately ensnare its adherents.” There was truth to that. He remembered the battles, first of words, then of arms; battles between the democrats and republicans, between liberals and conservatives, between the Greens and the Capitalists, between labour and management; each side believed firmly in the rightful Ed’s of their ideas — if everyone were to agree with them the problems would be solved. Each side had its share of fundamentalists, people who believed in absolutes, in supremacy and rightfulness.”
― Harold R. Johnson, Corvus