Tiffany

“Alone in the silence, I understand for a moment the dread which many feel in the presence of primeval desert, the unconscious fear which compels them to tame, alter or destroy what they cannot understand, to reduce the wild and prehuman to human dimensions. Anything rather than confront directly the antehuman, that other world which frightens not through danger or hostility but in something far worse - its implacable indifference.”
― Edward Abbey

“In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci

“[W]omen were those most likely to be victimized because they were the most 'disempowered' by these changes, especially older women, who often rebelled against their impoverishment and social exclusion and who consituted the bulk of the accused. In other words, women were charged with witchcraft because the restructuring of rural Europe at the dawn of capitalism destroyed their means of livelihood and the basis of their social poer, leaving them with no resort but dependence on the charity of the better-off at a time when communal bonds were disintegrating and a new morality was taking hold that criminalized begging and looked down upon charity, the reputed path to eternal salvation in the medieval world.”
― Silvia Federici, Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women