Jerry

“Kids’ lives are abstract, cerebral. There’s no cultural or political revolution, no upswell of anger. But there’s never been more to protest! Gosh, do I sound like an old crackpot.” She quoted in a high, self-righteous bleat, “‘When I was your age, I walked ten miles to school barefoot through the snow.”
― Kate Christensen, The Great Man

“Linear perspective may have launched the Renaissance from Florence, dear Eva, but it did not launch linearity. Not for us. Perspective is but the canvas. Life itself, as Italy knows, will draw its own lines and few are straight.”
― Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini

“But in recent years a political movement has emerged that fundamentally does not believe in the American idea. It claims that America is dedicated not to a proposition but to a particular religion and culture. It asserts that an insidious and alien elite has betrayed and abandoned the nation’s sacred heritage. It proposes to “redeem” America, and it acts on the extreme conviction that any means are justified in such a momentous project. It takes for granted that certain kinds of Americans have a right to rule, and that the rest have a duty to obey. No longer casting the United States as a beacon of freedom, it exports this counterrevolutionary creed through alliances with leaders and activists who are themselves hostile to democracy. This movement has captured one of the nation’s two major political parties, and some of its leading thinkers explicitly model their ambitions on corrupt and illiberal regimes abroad that render education, the media, and the corporate sector subservient to a one-party authoritarian state. How did such an anti-American movement take root in America? That is the question I aim to address in this book.”
― Katherine Stewart, Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy

“There is a better world,” a man said. “But it’s more expensive.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust