Vinay Kumar

“अगर कोई प्याला मुँह से न लगाकर दूर फेंक दे, तो समझ लो कि वह बेहद प्यासा है, इतना प्यासा कि तृप्ति की कल्पना से भी घबराता है।”
― Dharamvir Bharati, गुनाहों का देवता

“No product of agriculture is the slightest bit natural to an ecologist! You take a nice complex ecosystem, chop it into rectangles, clear it to the ground, and hammer it into perpetual early succession! You bust its sod, flatten it flat, and drench it with vast quantities of constant water! Then you populate it with uniform monocrops of profoundly damaged plants incapable of living on their own! Every food plant is a pathetic narrow specialist in one skill, inbred for thousands of years to a state of genetic idiocy! Those plants are so fragile, they had to domesticate humans just to take endless care of them!”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“But of course that is because I do not respect myself. Can a man of perception respect himself at all?”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“Silicon Valley dreams of destructive revolution, and platforms designed in ways that supercharge identity into a matter of totalizing and existential conflict.”
― Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World