Elaine

“People in chains had a tendency to look guilty.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
― Marie Curie

“Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy.”
― Mark Mazower, Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century