Frederic

“What is it the wind has lost that she keeps looking for under each leaf?”
― Jim Harrison, Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry

“What makes the soul who it is, if not the choices the person makes while he’s alive?”
― Dara Horn, The World to Come

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

“The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”
― H.L. Mencken