Shannon Knapp

“he was gibbering hysterically and when he saw the kid standing there looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what it seemed he himself would not hear, a howl of such outrage as to stitch a caesura in the pulsebeat of the world.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“the only choice is that between direct or indirect relations of domination and exploitation, with any alternative dismissed as utopian.”
― Slavoj Žižek, Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj

“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. That is the poison with which capitalism blinds the—”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“By what right can we call this a system of “corrections”? Is it not, rather, the rubric for a slavishly obedient, oppressed, and humiliated existence?”
― Slavoj Žižek, Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj