Dave Shaw

“a flash of lightning in the great darkness.”
― Andre Doshim Halaw, God is Nothingness: Awakening to Absolute Non-being

“The left has focused less on broad economic equality and more on promoting the interests of a wide variety of groups perceived as being marginalized—blacks, immigrants, women, Hispanics, the LGBT community, refugees, and the like. The right, meanwhile, is redefining itself as patriots who seek to protect traditional national identity, an identity that is often explicitly connected to race, ethnicity, or religion.”
― Francis Fukuyama, Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

“since men are equal and thus have the same wish for happiness, and since there is not enough wealth to satisfy them all to the same extent, they necessarily fight against each other and want power to secure the future enjoyment of what they have at present.”
― Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom

“The common suffering is the alienation from oneself, from one’s fellow man, and from nature; the awareness that life runs out of one’s hand like sand, and that one will die without having lived; that one lives in the midst of plenty and yet is joyless.”
― Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Zen Buddhism