Joe Ellefsen

“I exalt man be-fore what crushes him, and
my freedom, my revolt, and my passion come together then in that
tension, that lucidity, and that vast repetition.”
― Albert Camus

“Hunger and poverty are not the result of scarcity or natural phenomena; they are the product of political decisions”
― Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”
― David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

“I often look at the world and just think fuck it, why bother, but I know that’s how we are supposed to feel, that’s why the corruption is so naked and freely visible – to wear down people who have the conviction that things could be better.”
― Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire