Taylor Rowell

“America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts”
― Kiese Laymon, Heavy

“Although we regularly stigmatize other societies as rogue states, we ourselves have become the largest rogue state of all. We honor no treaties. We spurn international courts. We strike unilaterally wherever we choose. We give orders to the United Nations but do not pay our dues. We complain of terrorism, yet our empire is now the greatest terrorist of all. We bomb, invade, subvert other states.”
― Gore Vidal

“Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to get the truth back.”
― Gore Vidal

“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart