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“It's a relief there still exist certain values in this world that transcend the utilitarian rules of gain and loss we've long placed our faith in. There are people who, for reasons inexplicable even to themselves, choose to live according to principles incomprehensible to others, and yet manage to carve out their own safe little corner all the same. It gives you hope that this world really could change for the better.”
― Hu Anyan, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

“You have been believing that your freedom is secured when you 'put people against the wall'. For once, put yourself in front of a mirror!”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive”
― Mary Ruefle, Trances of the Blast

“[The State] is a brute force; obedience is a necessity not a duty. Or rather, one has a duty towards oneself not to knock one's head up against the brick wall of the state when it can serve no purpose. On the other hand, one has a duty, and not a right, never to let one atom of the liberty which the state allows to disappear; never to accept official ideology, but to create centres of independent thought. One has a duty to fight against the oppression of the state in so far as doing this does not result in suicide.”
― Simone Weil, Lectures on Philosophy