Cristina

“A chorus of voices exhorts kids to study science. No one stops to ask whether it is inhumane to force adolescents to spend the bulk of their time studying subjects most of them hate. When skilled workers are put out of a job by technical advances and have to undergo “retraining,” no one asks whether it is humiliating for them to be pushed around in this way. It is simply taken for granted that everyone must bow to technical necessity, and for good reason: If human needs were put before technical necessity there would be economic problems, unemployment, shortages or worse. The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“But finally, as Montaigne said, it was useless to "worry about death, it will take care of itself. Worry about life, that needs management.”
― Eric Manheimer, Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

“It always amazed him how something that is broken on the inside can look so perfect on the outside.”
― Emily Bleeker, When I'm Gone

“If one is intent on revenge, one should dig two graves. One for one’s victim and one for oneself.”
― Eric Manheimer, Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital