Charchit Joshi

“For eventually, we come to hold our dearest possessions more closely than we hold our friends. We carry them from place to place, often at considerable expense and inconvenience; we dust and polish their surfaces and reprimand children for playing too roughly in their vicinity—all the while, allowing memories to invest them with greater and greater importance”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“doing profitable and intrinsically significant work, of helping men and women to achieve independence from bosses, so that they may become their own employers, or members of a self-governing, co-operative group working for subsistence and a local market . . . this differently orientated technological progress (would result in) a progressive decentralisation of population, of political and economic power’.”
― Ernst F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

“All these grotesque incongruities between the richness of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough for the lad Grenouille to doubt that language made any sense at all;”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World