David Liu

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“You see, but you do not observe.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar now stood under the open sky in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.”
― Walter Benjamin, Illuminations: Essays and Reflections