Chris Tolve

“The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, Volume 2: 1930-1932

“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.”
― Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

“The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn’t tell them?”
― Frank Herbert, Dune