Theo

“And the world had its first secular myth. Older readers or those in old-fashioned countries will know the Napoleonic myth as it existed throughout the century when no middleclass cabinet was complete without his bust, and pamphleteering wits could argue, even for a joke, that he was not a man but a sun-god.”
― Eric J. Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution, 1789–1848

“The bourgeoisie of the third quarter of the nineteenth century was overwhelmingly ‘liberal’, not necessarily in a party sense (though as we have seen Liberal parties were prevalent), as in an ideological sense. They believed in capitalism, in competitive private enterprise, technology, science and reason. They believed in progress, in a certain amount of representative government, a certain amount of civil rights and liberties, so long as these were compatible with the rule of law and with the kind of order which kept the poor in their place. They believed in culture rather than religion, in extreme cases substituting the ritual attendance at opera, theatre or concert for that at church. They believed in the career open to enterprise and talent, and that their own lives proved its merits.”
― Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848-1875

“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
― Frantz Fanon

“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun