Katherine

“Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world’s, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship. —Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov”
― Steven Lee Myers, The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin

“The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.”
― Aneurin Bevan

“Anxiety is like the check-engine light on your car. If you disable it, you’re screwed.”
― Britt Frank, The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward

“No state, no matter how advanced, is immune from flawed leadership, the erosion of political checks and balances, and the degradation of its institutions.”
― Fiona Hill, There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century