Ali

“It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.”
― Walter Benjamin

“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free”
― Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“desire for normality; a longing to adapt to some recognized and general rule; a wish to be like everyone else, from the moment that being different meant being guilty.”
― Alberto Moravia, The Conformist: A Novel

“However, every advance in our knowledge of the cosmos has revealed that we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe. The news of our cosmic unimportance triggers impressive defense mechanisms in the human psyche.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution