Woke

“The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.”
― Gilles Deleuze

“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
― Walter Moers, The City of Dreaming Books

“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
― Mark Fisher