Andrew Melchior

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

“So, let us be alert--alert in a twofold sense.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.

And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
― Victor E Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Two men at Google who do not enjoy the legitimacy of the vote, democratic oversight, or the demands of shareholder governance exercise control over the organization and presentation of the world’s information. One man at Facebook who does not enjoy the legitimacy of the vote, democratic oversight, or the demands of shareholder governance exercises control over an increasingly universal means of social connection along with the information concealed in its networks.”
― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

“In J. H. Plumb’s words, in Georgian society, ‘without protection, the poor and the weak and the sick went under; the rich and the strong prospered’.”
― Roy Porter, English Society in the Eighteenth Century