Rowan

“The advantage of minimising our own activity is that it maximises the effect of powers larger than we are.”
― Robert Rowland Smith, What it Means to be Human: A philosophical memoir

“His true goal was not to free the prisoners; it was to show that people without fear still exist. That, too, was playacting. But he had no other possibility. His choice was not between playacting and action. His choice was between playacting and no action at all. There are situations in which people are condemned to playact. Their struggle with mute power (the mute power across the river, a police transmogrified into mute microphones in the wall) is the struggle of a theater company that has attacked an army.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational”
― Aldous Huxley , Brave New World

“One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means”
― Alan J. Perlis