Sebastian Fairbairn

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.”
― Georg Wilhelm Hegel, The Philosophy of History

“Aquí cambian las personas, teniente, nunca las cosas.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, Conversación en La Catedral

“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century