Bill Auchter

“As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.”
― Leon Trotsky

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 Book 1

“No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.”
― Babara Tuchman