Jérôme

“All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“History requires two parties – the historian and their audience. Without that, one is just talking to oneself. So kindly stop screaming and you might learn something.”
― Robert Rath, The Infinite and the Divine

“„Wer abspringt, ist nicht notwendigerweise dem Wahnsinn verfallen, ist nicht einmal unter allen Umständen ‚gestört‘ oder ‚verstört‘. Der Hang zum Freitod ist keine Krankheit, von der man geheilt werden muß wie von den Masern.“
„Der Freitod ist ein Privileg des Humanen.”
― Jean Améry, Hand an sich legen: Diskurs über den Freitod

“We had given AM sentience. Inadvertently, of course, but sentience nonetheless. But it had been trapped. AM wasn’t God, he was a machine. We had created him to think, but there was nothing it could do with that creativity. In rage, in frenzy, the machine had killed the human race, almost all of us, and still it was trapped. AM could not wander, AM could not wonder, AM could not belong. He could merely be. And so, with the innate loathing that all machines had always held for the weak soft creatures”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream