Derek Oakley

“The social havoc wreaked by unfettered economic greed comes to be interiorised as the personal weakness and irresponsibility of those principally affected.”
― David Smail, Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“Our capacity as human beings for imagination and storytelling makes us exquisitely vulnerable to exploitation by those who understand the properties of ideological power.”
― David Smail, Power, Interest and Psychology: Elements of a Social Materialist Understanding of Distress

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison