Eric

“Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.”
― Victoria Erickson

“حرف من راجع به این نیست که بدونی کجایی. راجع به اینه که به یه جایی برسی بدون این‌که هیچی با خودت برده باشی. چیزایی راجع به شروع دوباره تو ذهنت هست. یا تو ذهن هر کس دیگه‌ای. تو هیچ‌وقت دوباره شروع نمی‌کنی. تمام حرف من همینه. هر قدمی که برمی‌داری برای ابد برداشته شده. نمی‌تونی پاکش کنی.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. ...We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. ...In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons...who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.”
― Edward Bernays, Propaganda

“... a real program of social and economic reform [in Vietnam] would have involved a real conflict ... between the peasants ... and the landlords and the city people... [it] was difficult ... because it required a concern for the peasants ... it was those capacities ... its American supporters lacked.”
― Frances FitzGerald, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam