Joseph Bianco

“To regard the categories of the bourgeois system as eternal and natural is most typical of bourgeois philosophers.”
― V.I. Lenin, What the "Friends of the People" Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats

“Attention is a moral act: it creates, brings aspects of things into being, but in doing so makes others recede. What a thing is depends on who is attending to it, and in what way. The fact that a place is special to some because of its great peace and beauty may, by that very fact, make it for another a resource to exploit, in such a way that its peace and beauty are destroyed. Attention has consequences.”
― Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“If you don’t ask large questions, you’re going to have a small life.”
― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals